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SUBMITTER: Lin YP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC16920 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Y P YP Shaw M M Gregory V V Cameron K K Lim W W Klimov A A Subbarao K K Guan Y Y Krauss S S Shortridge K K Webster R R Cox N N Hay A A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20000801 17
In 1997, 18 cases of influenza in Hong Kong (bird flu) caused by a novel H5N1 (chicken) virus resulted in the deaths of six individuals and once again raised the specter of a potentially devastating influenza pandemic. Slaughter of the poultry in the live bird markets removed the source of infection and no further human cases of H5N1 infection have occurred. In March 1999, however, a new pandemic threat appeared when influenza A H9N2 viruses infected two children in Hong Kong. These two virus is ...[more]