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- Title
Human influenza A H5N1 virus related to a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.
- Authors
Claas, E C; Osterhaus, A D; van Beek, R; De Jong, J C; Rimmelzwaan, G F; Senne, D A; Krauss, S; Shortridge, K F; Webster, R G
- Abstract
In May, 1997, a 3-year-old boy in Hong Kong was admitted to the hospital and subsequently died from influenza pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, Reye's syndrome, multiorgan failure, and disseminated intravascular coagulation. An influenza A H5N1 virus was isolated from a tracheal aspirate of the boy. Preceding this incident, avian influenza outbreaks of high mortality were reported from three chicken farms in Hong Kong, and the virus involved was also found to be of the H5 subtype.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 1998, Vol 351, Issue 9101, p472
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11212-0