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Avian Influenza A(H7N2) Virus in Human Exposed to Sick Cats, New York, USA, 2016

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Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Dec;23(12). doi: 10.3201/eid2312.170798.
[h=1]Avian Influenza A(H7N2) Virus in Human Exposed to Sick Cats, New York, USA, 2016.[/h] Marinova-Petkova A, Laplante J, Jang Y, Lynch B, Zanders N, Rodriguez M, Jones J, Thor S, Hodges E, De La Cruz JA, Belser J, Yang H, Carney P, Shu B, Berman L, Stark T, Barnes J, Havers F, Yang P, Trock SC, Fry A, Gubareva L, Bresee JS, Stevens J, Daskalakis D, Liu D, Lee CT, Torchetti MK, Newbury S, Cigel F, Toohey-Kurth K, St George K, Wentworth DE, Lindstrom S, Davis CT.
[h=3]Abstract[/h] An outbreak of influenza A(H7N2) virus in cats in a shelter in New York, NY, USA, resulted in zoonotic transmission. Virus isolated from the infected human was closely related to virus isolated from a cat; both were related to low pathogenicity avian influenza A(H7N2) viruses detected in the United States during the early 2000s.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] A(H7N2); Avian influenza; H7N2; New York; United States; animal shelter; cat-to-human transmission; human infection with H7N2; influenza; interspecies transmission; respiratory infections; viruses

PMID: 29148400 DOI: 10.3201/eid2312.170798
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Veterinarian Gets Flu Virus from Cats

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Dr. Todd Davis, a CDC research biologist, discusses transmission of avian H7N2 from a cat to a human. Created: 3/28/2018 by National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID). Date Released: 3/28/2018. Series Name: Emerging Infectious Diseases.

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