Scientists Create a Bird Flu that is MORE Contagious

Yes, you read the title correctly. Scientists have created a more contagious bird flu.

At a flu conference in Malta this September, virologist Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands made an astounding, and terrifying, announcement.

He found that a few simple genetic tweaks to the virus made it far more infectious among ferrets - a standard animal model used to study how viruses spread among humans.

Fouchier found that a mere five mutations to the virus were sufficient to make it spread far more easily.

For some reason, this reminds of the poster on "How Everything Goes to Hell During a Zombie Apocalypse."