Bird flu in mammals

Hui-Ling Yen () and Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris ()
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Hui-Ling Yen: Hui-Ling Yen and Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris are at the School of Public Health and the Centre of Influenza Research, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, and the HKU-Pasteur Research Centre, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris: Hui-Ling Yen and Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris are at the School of Public Health and the Centre of Influenza Research, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, and the HKU-Pasteur Research Centre, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

Nature, 2012, vol. 486, issue 7403, 332-333

Abstract: An engineered influenza virus based on a haemagglutinin protein from H5N1 avian influenza, with just four mutations, can be transmitted between ferrets, emphasizing the potential for a human pandemic to emerge from birds. See Letter p.420

Date: 2012
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