“The reason avian flu isn’t more common is because it’s not an airborne contagion—at least it hasn’t been until now. With the un-engineered version, you have to touch something that’s been contaminated to get sick. But Fouchier’s version is airborne, meaning being in the vicinity of the disease and breathing it in would be enough to contract it. It’s as contagious as the human seasonal flu, but much more deadly. And now Fouchier wants to publish how he made it that way.”
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