Novel bird flu turns up in China

• Autores: Debora MacKenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3166, 2018, pág. 6
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A new strain of avian flu has infected people for the first time. So far, the virus doesn't seem to be especially threatening, but its jump from chickens to humans was unexpected: the World Health Organization says no similar strains have ever crossed to people before. Last week, the Hong Kong government announced that a 68-year-old woman in Jiangsu province in eastern China was hospitalised in January with severe respiratory symptoms. This turned out to be the first recorded case of an H7N4 flu virus infecting humans. The woman recovered after a month in hospital. She had handled live poultry before falling ill, so probably caught the virus from the birds or the market she bought them in