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Article: Qinghai-like H5N1 from domestic cats, northern Iraq.(Letter to the editor)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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To the Editor: Natural infection of several cat species with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 viruses in Thailand (1-4) and experimental infection of domestic cats with similar viruses have been reported (5, 6). Thus, literature describing HPAI H5N1 infection of cats is limited to descriptions of infections with a subset of clade I viruses. HPAI H5N1 viruses, highly similar to viruses isolated from Qinghai Lake in western People's Republic of China in spring 2005, are now rapidly disseminating throughout Eurasia and Africa. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a Qinghai-like virus detected in domestic cats. This finding is noteworthy because the host ...