Wednesday, April 3, 2013

New Bird Flu Strain

The latest strain of bird flu to cross over to infecting humans is the H7N9 strain, which has caused three infections and two deaths in China. However, while adapting to mammals, it does not appear to have the ability for direct human-to-human infection, limiting its ability to spread.

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