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Article: Lab tests find mutation of bird flu virus in China's human cases
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 28, 2005
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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 ...