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Last year?s jump in avian influenza cases among Cambodians could be due to a mutation of the virus in Cambodia and southern Vietnam, experts said Tuesday at a meeting in Phnom Penh. They said it would be the first mutation here of the virus since it was first detected in the region a decade ago.
The new virus apparently mutated from two existing viruses. It was discovered around the time Cambodia reported its first human infections of 2013. Since January 2013, 35 Cambodians are known to have contracted the virus, a number that exceeded reports of any other country worldwide for that period.
?[W]hile the rest of Southeast Asia has had constant changes of the virus, it?s been very stable here?until the introduction of this new [virus subtype],? Dr. Dennis Carroll, the Washington-based director of USAID?s avian influenza unit, said at the meeting between international experts on bird flu and regional animal and human health officials from Vietnam and Cambodia.
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http://www.healthcareasia.org/2014/new-mutation-in-bird-flu-virus-in-cambodia/
The new virus apparently mutated from two existing viruses. It was discovered around the time Cambodia reported its first human infections of 2013. Since January 2013, 35 Cambodians are known to have contracted the virus, a number that exceeded reports of any other country worldwide for that period.
?[W]hile the rest of Southeast Asia has had constant changes of the virus, it?s been very stable here?until the introduction of this new [virus subtype],? Dr. Dennis Carroll, the Washington-based director of USAID?s avian influenza unit, said at the meeting between international experts on bird flu and regional animal and human health officials from Vietnam and Cambodia.
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http://www.healthcareasia.org/2014/new-mutation-in-bird-flu-virus-in-cambodia/