Is our demand for cheap food putting our health at risk? At least 12 major diseases, which between them cause millions of people to suffer and tens of thousands to die around the world, can be blamed on factory farming, they claim. These include swine flu, bird flu, salmonella, e-coli and mad cow disease. [News Source]

Virus hunter searches for next pandemic. While most virologists do their work in a lab, Nathan Wolfe travels to far-flung places — the jungles of Malaysia, the deserts of Saharan Africa — stalking potential pandemics before they hit. [News Source]