Scientists Track Avian Flu Variant Across Egypt

In a study, Matthew Scotch, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, tracked the spread of an H5N1 variant in Egypt. The country has been identified as a major epicenter for the virus. Scotch tracked the spread of H5N1 cases using a technique known as phylogeography. The results recently appeared in the journal BMC Genomics.