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☆ Bird poop may be the key to stopping the next flu pandemic. Here’s why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-27 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

This year, their work has taken on new urgency as a dangerous flu virus, H5N1, tears through dairy cattle and poultry flocks in the United States. Dr. Robert Webster, a New Zealand virologist who was the first to understand that flu viruses come from the guts of birds. Finding a new flu virus here may give the world an early warning to incoming contagion. Sandpipers on East Point beach in Maurice River Township in New Jersey CNNIt’s not the first time US farmers have had to contend with a highly pathogenic bird flu. “We did get the same strain that’s causing all the havoc in the people and in the wild birds,” Kercher said.

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☆ Amanda Knox returns to Italian court for slander trial linked to Meredith Kercher’s murder
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Knox, Sollecito and Ivory Coast native Rudy Guede, whose DNA was present in the murder room, were all convicted of the murder in 2009. Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters/FileKnox and Sollecito’s murder convictions were overturned by a Perugia appellate court in 2011 after an independent review of key forensic evidence, only to have that acquittal overturned by Italy’s supreme court in 2013. The 36-year-old Seattle native, now a mother of two, along with Sollecito, were definitively cleared in 2015 of Kercher’s murder after Italy’s supreme court voided the 2013 re-conviction. After being cleared of murder, Knox remained convicted of slander against Lumumba, a ruling upheld by Italy’s supreme court in 2015. The decision will then have to go to Italy’s supreme court once more.

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