Insights and Stories of Kate Kelland

Jul. 5, 2012 at 11:05 pm CDT

A global study mapping human diseases that come from animals, such as tuberculosis, AIDS, bird flu or Rift Valley fever, has found that just 13 such diseases are responsible for 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 million deaths a year. The vast majority of infections and deaths from […]

By Kate Kelland

May. 6, 2011 at 5:09 pm CDT

Scientists studying foot-and-mouth disease have found that cattle with the virus are infectious for only a very short time — suggesting that mass culling previously used to reduce the disease’s spread may in future be avoided. In research published in the journal Science on Thursday, scientists found that even if […]

By Kate Kelland

Jan. 14, 2011 at 1:05 pm CST

(Reuters) –– British scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) chickens that cannot transmit bird flu infections — a step that in future could reduce the risk of avian flu spreading and causing deadly epidemics in humans. Scientists from Cambridge and Edinburgh universities said that while the transgenic chickens still got […]

By Kate Kelland