Bird-Pig Flu

I’m still taking the weekends off from blogging, but wanted to include a link to this scary development with Swine Flu at a turkey farm in Chile: UN warns over swine flu in birds

Bottom Line

Why is this bad? Swine flu is very contagious but not deadly (not much worse than normal flu). Bird flu is deadly but not contagious. So far the world has avoided a deadly pandemic from both.

But viruses like to exchange DNA with each other when in the same host body. In a worst-case scenario a Bird-Swine super virus could develop that is contagious and deadly.