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Keep an eye out for new flu viruses: WHO
12/19/2011 | Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press
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The WHO is stressing the importance of monitoring for new variants of flu and reporting any findings to the Geneva-based UN health agency.
The statement comes in the wake of a series of discoveries in the United States of human infections with a new swine-origin H3N2 virus.
There have been 10 infections with this virus in the U.S. since the new variant of swine H3N2 viruses was first seen in humans in July; some limited person-to-person spread is believed to have taken place.
The WHO says countries should remember they have an obligation under the International Health Regulations to notify the WHO of any human infections with a flu virus that is not one of the subtypes normally seen in people.
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The WHO's statement also urges countries to send for further testing any influenza A viruses their national laboratories cannot identify. Influenza A viruses are the only types of flu viruses capable of causing flu pandemics.
Full text:
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/cityn...6107--keep-an-eye-out-for-new-flu-viruses-who
12/19/2011 | Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press
...
The WHO is stressing the importance of monitoring for new variants of flu and reporting any findings to the Geneva-based UN health agency.
The statement comes in the wake of a series of discoveries in the United States of human infections with a new swine-origin H3N2 virus.
There have been 10 infections with this virus in the U.S. since the new variant of swine H3N2 viruses was first seen in humans in July; some limited person-to-person spread is believed to have taken place.
The WHO says countries should remember they have an obligation under the International Health Regulations to notify the WHO of any human infections with a flu virus that is not one of the subtypes normally seen in people.
...
The WHO's statement also urges countries to send for further testing any influenza A viruses their national laboratories cannot identify. Influenza A viruses are the only types of flu viruses capable of causing flu pandemics.
Full text:
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/cityn...6107--keep-an-eye-out-for-new-flu-viruses-who