Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
Volume 17, Number 6?June 2011
Dispatch
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Volume 17, Number 6?June 2011
Dispatch
Human Infection with Avian Influenza Virus, Pakistan, 2007
Mukhtiar Zaman, Saadia Ashraf, Nancy A. Dreyer, and Stephen Toovey
Author affiliations: Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan (M. Zaman, S. Ashraf); Outcome Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (N.A. Dreyer); and University College and Royal Free Medical School, London, UK (S. Toovey)
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Abstract
Human infection with avian influenza (H5N1) virus raises concern for the possibility of a pandemic. We report 20 cases, which ranged from asymptomatic to fatal, in Pakistan in 2007. These cases indicate human-to-human-to-human transmission of this virus, and the number of cases may be higher than realized.
-Mukhtiar Zaman, Saadia Ashraf, Nancy A. Dreyer, and Stephen Toovey
Author affiliations: Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan (M. Zaman, S. Ashraf); Outcome Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (N.A. Dreyer); and University College and Royal Free Medical School, London, UK (S. Toovey)
Suggested citation for this article
Abstract
Human infection with avian influenza (H5N1) virus raises concern for the possibility of a pandemic. We report 20 cases, which ranged from asymptomatic to fatal, in Pakistan in 2007. These cases indicate human-to-human-to-human transmission of this virus, and the number of cases may be higher than realized.
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