Duck DNA might shield farm chickens from flu

Researchers say modifying chickens with a duck gene could protect them and reduce human exposure to dangerous influenza strains. Influenza has for years ravaged domesticated chickens. Now scientists suggest that a small piece of duck DNA might protect the farm birds against the virus -- saving commercial flocks and lessening the possibility that humans could be exposed to dangerous strains of the disease.

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