March 13, 2015
By Larry Bernstein
...While it's much too early (click here) to predict whether that might happen, one of the scientists said there was cause for alarm because the H7N9 virus jumps to humans more quickly than its predecessors and previously has been found in mammals.
"This virus is more dangerous," said Yi Guan of the University of Hong Kong, one of the authors of a research letter online in the journal Nature.
It's not clear why the outbreak, which began in late 2013, has re-emerged after fading. But by September 2014, it had infected 318 people and killed more than 100 of them, twice as many as the first wave, the scientists reported. Many people suffer severe pneumonia if infected by the flu, which also has spread to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Canada, according to the World Health Organisation....
The bird flu in Arkansas hasn't mutated to human transfer.
By Larry Bernstein
...While it's much too early (click here) to predict whether that might happen, one of the scientists said there was cause for alarm because the H7N9 virus jumps to humans more quickly than its predecessors and previously has been found in mammals.
"This virus is more dangerous," said Yi Guan of the University of Hong Kong, one of the authors of a research letter online in the journal Nature.
It's not clear why the outbreak, which began in late 2013, has re-emerged after fading. But by September 2014, it had infected 318 people and killed more than 100 of them, twice as many as the first wave, the scientists reported. Many people suffer severe pneumonia if infected by the flu, which also has spread to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Canada, according to the World Health Organisation....
The bird flu in Arkansas hasn't mutated to human transfer.
