After yapping on about the recent worry about avian influenza, these arrived in my inbox: Measuring fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in mammals and birds: the importance of validation. Sampling effort/frequency necessary to infer individual acute stress responses from fecal analysis in Greylag geese (Anser anser). Ah ha ha… Not something I want to do right now…
Maybe it’s because I’m way over here on the other side of the Atlantic (with a whole continent inbetween to boot!), but the current worry about bird flu in Europe isn’t keeping me up at night. Standard disclaimer: I don’t know any better than your regular layman/woman about H5N1, other avian viruses, let alone virus […]
From Nature (news): Researchers call for more bird flu drugs. While I’m not 100% convinced the threat of a mosaic/mutant virus will emerge this time, there is one thing that is bugging me about the situation arising in Europe. In response, countries are stocking up on Tamiflu, the main anti-viral medicine recommended by the World […]
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