Article: Lab tests find mutation of bird flu virus in China's human cases

Lab tests find mutation of bird flu virus in China's human cases

BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Studies show the 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, said the Chinese Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday.

Lab tests find 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, according to the information office of the MOH.

However, compared with the virus strain from the human cases in Vietnam, the genetic order of H5N1 in China's human cases has mutated "to a certain degree," the MOH spokesman Mao ...

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