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Bird flu study 'sounds the alarm' on strain?s pandemic potential
A Nature paper calls for stronger control measures and better surveillance to dampen China's growing bird flu threat
By: Jennifer Yang Global health reporter, Published on Wed Mar 11 2015
The H7N9 bird flu that first emerged in 2013 has spread quickly across China and mutated into different strains that are now mixing with other flu viruses ? all troubling signals that H7N9 is "a major candidate to emerge as a pandemic strain in humans," according to a new paper.
In a Nature paper published Wednesday, an international team of scientists called for stronger control measures and better surveillance to dampen China's growing bird flu threat. The paper comes on the heels of a recent uptick in H7N9 cases and a February report from the World Health Organization, warning that the "world needs to be concerned" about the increasingly worrisome mix of influenza viruses now circulating.
Bird flu study 'sounds the alarm' on strain?s pandemic potential
A Nature paper calls for stronger control measures and better surveillance to dampen China's growing bird flu threat
By: Jennifer Yang Global health reporter, Published on Wed Mar 11 2015
The H7N9 bird flu that first emerged in 2013 has spread quickly across China and mutated into different strains that are now mixing with other flu viruses ? all troubling signals that H7N9 is "a major candidate to emerge as a pandemic strain in humans," according to a new paper.
In a Nature paper published Wednesday, an international team of scientists called for stronger control measures and better surveillance to dampen China's growing bird flu threat. The paper comes on the heels of a recent uptick in H7N9 cases and a February report from the World Health Organization, warning that the "world needs to be concerned" about the increasingly worrisome mix of influenza viruses now circulating.