Influenza

CDC Sends Team to Investigate Asian Avian Flu

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 22nd, 1997

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent a team of epidemiologists to Hong Kong on December 4, 1997, to investigate a strain of flu that usually afflicts birds, but has infected humans for the first time.

A CDC spokeswoman said the agency did not believe there was a link between the two flu victims - both children and both from Hong Kong. The likely source of the virus was chickens. She said Hong Kong had experienced a flu epidemic among ducks and chickens.

On December 2, the World Health Organization confirmed the second case of influenza A, strain H5N1 in a human. That case involved a two-year-old boy hospitalized in...

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