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Q J Med 2004; 97: 311-312
QJM vol. 97 no. 5 (c) Association of Physicians 2004; all rights reserved.

Biologic

Waiting for the flu

Colin Berry

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Whether the problem is swine-based, fowl-dependent or civet-cat-related; epidemics of infectious respiratory diseases are in the news. Many of the informed take the problem of potential future pandemics very seriously—I have been involved with an exhumation in the month in which I write this in order to look for tissue to discover sequences that might inform us about what made the 1918 pandemic so devastating. Are you OK on this at parties? (flu, not exhumation). Here is a guide.

Influenza viruses are typed by their haemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N) surface glycoproteins. It is the H2, H5, H6, H7 and H9 sub-types of influenza virus that are thought most likely to be transmitted to human beings from their multiple animal hosts (there are many of these and many . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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