Friday, August 23, 2013

Scientists discover new bird flu virus ‘worse than H7N9’

Hong Kong team finds new H7 flu strain in chickens in southeast China
August 22, 2013

Excerpt:
"The continuing prevalence of H7 viruses in poultry could lead to the generation of highly pathogenic variants and further sporadic human infections," they wrote in the journalNature .
"If (we) let this H7N7 continue circulating in chickens, I am sure that human infection cases will occur," study co-author Guan Yi from the University of Hong Kong said.
"This virus could cause more severe infection than ... H7N9, based on our animal experiment," he said.

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