This is one of those times that I think Drudge is an ass. I found that story by visiting the Drudge Report and got a little nervous when I read his headline.
The truth of the matter is that the influenza virus mutates all the time. Nothing particularly newsworthy about that, unless you're a viral geneticist. The newsworthy mutation is when it jumps from animal-human transmission to human-human transmission.
Drudge trumpeting that headline was a real yellow journalism moment.
I was hoping someone would point this out. I'll just repeat it. If it mutates so as to allow human to human transmission, we will take note.
Me too. I read the headline and my stomach got hot.
I have become of the opinion that virtually all "journalism" is yellow!
Firstly; it is written buy people not trained in anything but the art of writing (and that is in doubt much of the time). They are not writing on topics of which they have a intimate or working knowledge, for the vast majority of them have no specialty,
Journalists write what they hear.....not what they "know", and it is common knowledge that hearing is a very imperfect mechanism.
The level of "fear mongering" going on in the press by journalists today is indicative of not being knowledgeable enough to comprehend the "real story".