Referral: Mackay On EID - Geographic Co-distribution Of H7N9 & H5N1

 

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A `twofer’ from Dr. Ian Mackay, who has blogged twice in the past 24 hours in his Virology Down Under  Blog on the recently published EID Journal letter:

 

Geographic Co-distribution of Influenza Virus Subtypes H7N9 and H5N1 in Humans, China

Liya Wang¹, Wenyi Zhang¹, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhaes¹, Archie C.A. Clements¹, Wenbiao Hu¹, Fan Ding¹, Hailong Sun, Shenlong Li, Qiyong Liu, Zeliang Chen, Yansong Sun, Liuyu Huang, and Cheng-Yi Li

 

Follow the links below to read Ian’s commentary.

 

Part 1:

H7N9 and H5N1 may have emerged from birds around Taihu Lake

Part 2:

Taihu lake & influenza viruses Part II: people, pigs, poultry and migratory birds