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Science 7 March 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5612, p. 1504
DOI: 10.1126/science.299.5612.1504
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
An Avian Flu Jumps to People

Bernice Wuethrich

While researchers monitor U.S. pigs for potentially dangerous changes in swine influenza virus (see main text), recent events on the other side of the world have sounded an even more urgent alarm. Last month in Hong Kong, a 33-year-old man died and his 9-year-old son fell seriously ill after contracting an avian influenza virus from a source that remains mysterious.

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Restoration of virulence of escape mutants of H5 and H9 influenza viruses by their readaptation to mice.
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Reemerging H5N1 Influenza Viruses in Hong Kong in 2002 Are Highly Pathogenic to Ducks.
K. M. Sturm-Ramirez, T. Ellis, B. Bousfield, L. Bissett, K. Dyrting, J. E. Rehg, L. Poon, Y. Guan, M. Peiris, and R. G. Webster (2004)
J. Virol. 78, 4892-4901
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