Re: A/Shanghai/60T/2009(H1N1) released 6/22
concerning the H7N7 outbreak in 2003 in the Netherlands, which caused the
culling of 30M chickens and one veterinarian had lethal infection ...
we talked about this earlier, I can't find it now.
They reported about 14 amino-acid changes in the vet.
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/5/1356.full.pdf
but in Oct.2007 they uploaded another chicken sequence, which
only has 2 nucleotide-differences:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/115343242?report=genbank
VRL 01-OCT-2007
A/chicken/Netherlands/03010132/03(H7N7)
Munster,V.J., de Wit,E., Koch,G., Osterhaus,A.D.M.E. and Fouchier,R.A.M.
TITLE Determinants of enhanced replication of human H7N7 influenza A virus isolates
JOURNAL Unpublished
so there were presumably two related viruses going around with common ancestor
in late 2002,early 2003
And those mutations (except presumably E627K) did not develope in the vet
or E627K was a lab-error as in the ****** case from Shanghai ?!
for the outbreak in chickens see:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/425583