Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Tracing evolution of chicken flu virus yields insight into origins of deadly H7N9 strain

Date:
December 29, 2014

Source:
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Summary:
An international research team has shown how changes in a flu virus that has plagued Chinese poultry farms for decades helped create the novel avian H7N9 influenza A virus that has sickened more than 375 people since 2013.


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