Fugleinfluensa
Fugleinfluensa opdaget hos ko i Nederlandene for første gang uden for USA
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Fugleinfluensaviruset H5N1 er opdaget for første gang uden for USA hos en ko i Nederlandene. Antistoffer mod patogenet er fundet i mælken fra dyret på en gård i provinsen Friesland. Friedrich-Loeffler-Instituttet i Greifswald bekræfter, at intet sådant tilfælde tidligere har været kendt globalt.
A Hong Kong poultry stall in Sha Tin’s Wo Che Market was suspended for disinfection after an environmental sample tested positive for the H9 bird flu virus. A two-year-old boy had contracted H9N2 after visiting the market, though shoppers said they were not worried.
Rapporteret af AI Faktatjekket
Scientists from the universities of Cambridge and Glasgow have shown why many bird flu viruses can keep replicating at fever-like temperatures that typically curb human flu. A study in Science identifies the viral PB1 gene as crucial to this heat tolerance, raising concerns about pandemic risks if such genes move into human strains.