The avian flu, H5N1, is capable of killing 59% of infected people. However, it could not spread between humans until Ron Fouchier attempted to better understand the virus. Many pandemic inducing virus are studied to help find ways to combat the virus should it start spreading. Fouchier accidentally created a strain the flu that could be transmitted though the air. As Fouchier is looking to publish is work, Paul Keim, chairman of the US National Science Advisory Board for Bio-security said (NSABB) said that the only thing that he could compare the gravity of this virus to is anthrax.
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