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Tracking the next pandemic: Avian Flu Talk

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    Posted: January 13 2015 at 4:44pm
Cluster

This is what I have been waiting to see - H2H clusters

Its blind and short - but as the virus mutates they will grow longer
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WHO sees no major H5N1 genetic changes in Egypt

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Factors affecting increased human H5N1 cases might include increased viral circulation in poultry and higher contact between birds and ...
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Nah....I don't know anyone in virology who is waiting for H5N1 to re-assort & become pandemic (except for Kawaoka at Univ of Wisconsin in Madison).   I'm not even sure that H7N9 will make it, although it looked promising last year....

"Of the influenza A viruses, only subtypes H1, H2 and H3 have been transmitted easily between humans. Only the H1 and H3 subtypes are currently circulating causing seasonal influenza in humans." 


http://www.flupandemic.gov.au/internet/panflu/publishing.nsf/Content/whatis-1
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