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Science 8 July 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5732, p. 231
DOI: 10.1126/science.309.5732.231a
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AVIAN INFLUENZA:
Potentially More Lethal Variant Hits Migratory Birds in China

Dennis Normile

In a paper published online by Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1115273), researchers report that the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak at Lake Qinghai in western China in mid-May appears to have been caused by a new variant that may be more lethal to wild birds, as well as to experimentally infected mice.

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