Google Earth Supermap of Avian Flu (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Google Earth Supermap of Avian Flu

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Researchers using Google Earth technology are able to visually chart individual outbreaks of the avian flu as it has spread outward from China over the past decade, including gene mutations that are causing a resistance to a major class of antiviral drugs.

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Google Earth, University of Colorado

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