Saturday, October 6, 2007

H5N1 mutation that could help spark pandemic identified

Oct 5, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – An international research team led by the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW-Madison) has identified a key mutation that would arm the H5N1 avian influenza virus with one of the tools it needs to more easily infect and spread among humans.





(Bird flu on Saskatchewan farm results in culling of 50,000 chickens
( News Medical.Net )
Disease/Infection News
Published: Thursday, 4-Oct-2007

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says chickens infected with a highly pathogenic H7N3 strain of avian influenza on a farm in Saskatchewan have all been destroyed.

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