The US government is spending $1million of American taxpayer money to fund gain-of-function experiments on dangerous bird flu viruses in collaboration with Chinese scientists.
The research involves infecting ducks and geese with different strains to make them more transmissible and infectious, and study the viruses’ potential to ‘jump into mammalian hosts,’ according to the research documents.
It is being funded through the US Department of Agriculture and will take place at sites in Georgia, Beijing and Edinburgh in Scotland.
For anyone with MS:
A 16-week trial involves 40 people with MS living in the areas around Denver and Pavia, Italy.
It will investigate how table tennis can improve motor and non-motor symptoms of participants which include fatigue, muscle weakness, reductions in movement as well as declines in cognition, pain and depression.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13086671/Doctors-prescribing-table-tennis-MS.html