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Influenza
New influenza study findings reported from Children's Hospital
December 10th, 2008
"Influenza A viruses exist within their natural host, aquatic birds, in a number of antigenic subtypes," researchers in the United States report. "Only a few of these subtypes have successfully crossed into other avian and mammalian hosts. This brief review will focus on just three examples of viruses that have successfully passed between species; avian H5N1 and H9N2 viruses and H3N2 viruses which have transmitted from aquatic birds to humans and then to swine," wrote M.F. Ducatez and colleagues, Children's Hospital. The researchers concluded: "Although there are a number of other subtypes that have also transmitted successfully between species,...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-12-10)
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