H5N1! Now H7N3!
From My Way, Jump in suspected bird flu cases in people
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Adding to the sense of alarm, researchers in Vietnam say the H5N1 avian flu virus has mutated allowing it to replicate more easily inside humans and other mammals. Taiwan said it had detected another bird flu strain that can infect people.Are we being overly dramatic about Bird Flu or are we in the fifth stage of a pandemic? The fifth stage moves under the surface, lulls us into complacency, before it explodes into the sixth and final stage.[...]
Perhaps just as worrying, Taiwan said on Monday it had found another highly pathogenic strain of avian flu, H7N3, in droppings left by a migratory bird and is carrying out tests to see if the virus has spread to nearby poultry farms.
Like H5N1, the H7N3 strain can infect humans, said an official at the Council of Agriculture.
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Monday November 14, 2005 at 7:02am
