AsiaPundit is a regular an irregular contributor to the Good Beer Blog. He should be more regular but there is so little good beer in China. But there is still good beer news in Asia… and if it holds up to peer testing it could be very good news, Japan’s Kirin Brewery has discovered antibodies that can protect humans from Avian Flu.:

I kid you not! The Kirin Brewery has apparently discovered or developed avian flu antibodies to protect humans from the flu…

The antibody proved effective in fighting avian influenza, including H5N1 strains, according to Gemini Science Inc., a U.S. unit of Kirin, which reported the findings at a meeting of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in Washington. The antibody proved effective in experiments with mice, the company said.

I wonder if they found them in the beer?

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