The latest test shows that avian flu will not spread from person to person
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Last Update: 2008-11-03
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Lead: new page 1 China Daily website news: the World Health Organization said on February 12 that the new gene test results showed that there is no evidence that the 14 people who died of highly pathogenic avian influenza are due to human to human transmission I9c according to Reuters, this conclusion is based on the DNA test results of a 23-year-old Vietnamese woman The woman died of H5N1 infection after suspecting she had contracted it from her sister, who also died But the test proved that the previous suspicion of human to human transmission of infection death is wrong "The virus gene obtained from this (23-year-old) woman has the same origin as another case in her family (avian influenza death), but does not contain the human influenza gene," the World Health Organization said Experts at the i9c say that although humans can directly infect the virus from birds, the virus has mutated before it can spread from person to person I9c however, a recent study of the influenza virus that killed 40 million people worldwide in 1918 shows that human to human influenza viruses have only a very small variation compared with the original avian viruses I9c
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