New Vaccine Resistant Bird Flu Spreads Fast

November 1, 2006

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A newly discovered bird flu strain has emerged in China and has spread rapidly through poultry in Southeast Asia.

Human infections by the new strain have also turned up in several locations, including both farms and urban centers, intensifying fears of a worldwide flu pandemic that could kill millions.
Magnifying those concerns is the vaccine-selective nature of the new strain, which means that existing animal vaccines are less effective on it than they are on previously known bird flu types.

“This virus seemed to spread very fast over a big geographic region,” said Yi Guan, director of the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong in China.

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