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Article: Bird flu virus in China's human cases mutating.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
- Article date:
- November 28, 2005
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Bird flu virus in China's human cases mutating
Beijing, Nov 28 (PTI) In a significant development, researchers have found that the deadly H5N1 strain of virus separated from China's human cases of bird flu has mutated compared with the strain found in Vietnam's human cases.
Lab tests undertaken by Chinese scientists found that the H5N1 strain of virus separated from recent human cases is highly homologous with that found in poultry samples from the bird flu outbreak places, the spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Mao Qun'an said.
However, compared with the virus strain from the human cases in Vietnam, the genetic order of H5N1 in China's human ...