Mammalian-Transmissible Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza: Epidemiological Context
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There are many uncertainties regarding the potential applicability of epidemiological data from ferrets infected with laboratory-created highly pathogenic H5N1 viruses to human public health. These concerns can be better understood and articulated when discussed in the context of observational and clinical data from infections of mammals and humans by unmodified “wild-type” H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1 HPAI) viruses, factors which have been largely overlooked or ignored in most of the ongoing public and scientific debate over this issue. Key factors most relevant to the debate include the following:
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دوره 3 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2012