The Scientist : Genetic analysis of bird flu [27/2/2003]

Email: Tabitha M Powledge - tam@nasw.org
News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030227-04 doi:10.1186/20030227-04

27 February 2003

The new bird flu virus that has killed at least one person in South China is genetically different from the avian flu strain that infected 18 people in Hong Kong and killed six of them in 1997. But, like the 1997 virus, the new strain does not appear to contain sequences from human flu viruses that would speed its spread from person to person, lessening fears that a lethal pandemic flu may be imminent.

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