H5N1 News: Bird flu mutating, Vietnamese study finds
A Reuters newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
Scientists in Vietnam, where bird flu has killed 42 people, said the deadly H5N1 influenza virus had mutated into a more dangerous form that could breed more effectively in mammals, state media reported on Sunday.
The online newspaper Vnexpress quoted Cao Bao Van, director of the Molecule Biology Department of the Pasteur Institute, Vietnam’s center of bird flu research, as saying the decoding of 24 samples of the virus taken from poultry and humans showed significant antigen variation.
posted by Fergie @ 11/13/2005 05:43:00 PM
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