Antivirals
Study findings from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease provide new insights into antivirals
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 25th, 2008
A report, 'Highly pathogenic RNA viral infections: challenges for antiviral research,' is newly published data in Antiviral Research. "A number of RNA viruses can cause severe disease when transmitted to humans from an animal reservoir. One of them, the recently emerged H5N1 subtype of influenza A virus, has caused several hundred cases of severe disease when transferred directly from domestic poultry," scientists in the United States report.
"This or another avian subtype could potentially evolve to a form more transmissible by the respiratory route or reassort with a circulating strain to initiate a pandemic. Other zoonotic RNA viruses cause sporadic single...
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