Andrew Easton, Professor of Virology at the University of Warwick's School of Life Sciences, has commented on the case of bird flu at a Yorkshire duck farm. Professor Easton says "Aquatic birds such as ducks can harbour over 100 (in fact 144 ) different types of influenza" and that "the risk to the poultry industry is high and the current measures require that infected birds are killed as quickly as possible".

"The most important issue facing Philae now is the lack of a secure fix to the surface", says Professor Tom Marsh - leader of Warwick's Astronomy and Astrophysics group, but firing the "harpoons is not necessarily a good idea".

Following the recall of 22,000 dental patients following dental malpractice Professor David Evans, of the University of Warwick's School of Life Sciences, has said that the exposure to viruses "depends upon the dental procedures involved and the likelihood of gloves or instruments being contaminated from a previous patient".

Commenting ahead of the Rosetta spacecraft’s landing on a comet, Professor Tom Marsh – leader of the University of Warwick’s Astronomy and Astrophysics group, said: "It is a very difficult and ambitious task, but if it comes off we will have a close-up view of a survivor from the earliest times of the Solar System, 4.5 billion years ago".

Professor Andrew Easton, of the University of Warwick's School of Life Science, has provided commented upon the newly published report in Science on the genetic influence on Ebola outcome in mice.