Influenza A virus subtype H5N1

Bird Flu now contagious to humans

AFP, via Yahoo News: A research team led by Ron Fouchier at Rotterdam’s Erasmus Medical Centre said in September it had created a mutant version of the H5N1 bird flu virus that could for the first time be spread among mammals. The H5N1 strain of bird flu is fatal in 60 percent of human cases … Continue reading »