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In a paper from Emerging Infectious Diseases, an international team of researchers report the first ever large-scale sequencing of western genomes of the deadly avian influenza virus, H5N1.
Their study of 36 genomes of the virus collected from wild birds in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMA), and Vietnam confirms not only that the virus has very recently spread west from Asia, but that two of the new western strains have already independently combined, or “reassorted,” to create a new strain.
You can read the full report from the link below - it makes for interesting reading…
Bird Flu Genome Study Shows New Strains, Western Spread
Infection Control Today - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The green, pink and yellow arrows depict the three strains of avian flu that have emerged independently in the West. The orange arrows show the likely …
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