Chicken flu circumvents cytokines
The avian H5N1 influenza virus outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997 proved to be highly virulent when first transmitted to humans, but the reasons for this virulence have remained unclear. In August 26 Nature Medicine, Sang Heui Seo and colleagues at St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA, show that lethal H5N1 influenza viruses, unlike other human, avian and swine influenza viruses, are resistant to the antiviral effects of interferons and tumor necrosis factor α (Nat Med 2002, DOI:10
Aug 26, 2002
The avian H5N1 influenza virus outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997 proved to be highly virulent when first transmitted to humans, but the reasons for this virulence have remained unclear. In August 26
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