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Article: CDC develops new model for pandemic.(genetic changes necessary for the avian influenza virus )(Centers for Disease Control)
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- August 14, 2006
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RESEARCHERS at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) developed a new research method that may help identify the types of genetic changes necessary for the avian influenza virus (H5N1) to be more easily transmitted among people.
CDC scientists used the method to investigate the ability of a lab-engineered combination of the avian influenza virus and a more common human virus to spread in lab animals. Efficient and sustained human-to-human transmission is the remaining property H5N1 viruses do not yet have that is needed to cause a pandemic, CDC said.
In this series of experiments, published in the July 31 issue of the Proceedings of the ...