Bird flu virus cannot trigger human pandemic

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Bird flu virus cannot trigger human pandemic [1]

current avian flu viral strains may lack the ability to trigger a human pandemic, claims a team of researchers.

Led by Taronna Maines from the Centers for Disease Control (cdc) in the us, the scientists genetically engineered viruses containing genes from both the h5n1 avian flu strain and a human flu virus. The transgenic viruses were then tested on ferrets

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30/08/2006

Source: Down to Earth [2]

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