A new study recently found that peanut butter can possibly contribute to future pandemics through reforestation. It has extended such insight too, to deforestation associated with agricultural production of products like palm oil.
Scientists still don't know if two commonly-used flu drugs -- Roche's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza -- really work in seasonal or pandemic flu outbreaks and say robust clinical trials are urgently needed to find out.