“Human populations could be vulnerable to infection at epidemic or pandemic proportion,” medical experts are warning.
Medical experts have discovered that one variant of the avian flu virus, dubbed H3N8, has undergone several mutations and can now cause more severe infections.
“Human populations, even when vaccinated … could be vulnerable to infection at epidemic or pandemic proportion,”The H3N8 variant has been found in horses, dogs and seals as well as birds, but it has not made the leap into human populations — yet. Such markets are considered by public health experts to be rich breeding grounds for cultivating potentially deadly viruses, bacteria and other infectious agents.Future Publishing via Getty Images
“[A]n avian H3N8 virus isolated from a patient with severe pneumonia replicated efficiently in human bronchial and lung epithelial cells, was extremely harmful in its effects in laboratory mammalian hosts and could be passed on through respiratory droplets,” study co-author Professor Kin-Chow Chang of the University of NottinghamAvian flu viruses don’t usually infect people, but there have been rare cases of human infection with these viruses, according to theWet markets, where live animals are...
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