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Avian H5N1 Influenza—Are We Inching Closer to a Global Pandemic?
Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 80Issue 12p1552–1555Published in issue: December, 2005- Priya Sampathkumar
- Dennis G. Maki
Cited in Scopus: 2Avian influenza or “bird flu” first moved from being an obscure disease known only to veterinarians to a widely recognized global health issue in 1997 when an outbreak caused by the H5N1 strain of the influenza A virus was reported in poultry being sold in the huge live animal markets of Hong Kong. While outbreaks of avian influenza in domestic poultry and other birds are common, the uniqueness of this outbreak was the fact that, for what was thought to be the first time, there was documented transmission of a virulent avian influenza virus to humans.
