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Chinese scientists sound warning over new H10N8 bird flu
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/04/chinese-scientists-sound-warning-over-new-h10n8-bird-flu/Chinese scientists sound warning over new H10N8 bird flu
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 20:11 EST
Chinese scientists sounded the alarm Wednesday after a new bird flu virus, H10N8, killed an elderly woman in December and infected another individual last month.
The fifth novel influenza strain to emerge in 17 years, the virus has a worrying genetic profile and should be closely monitored, they reported in The Lancet medical journal.
It appears to be able to infect tissue deep in the lung and may have features allowing it to spread efficiently among humans, they said.
“The pandemic potential of this novel virus should not be underestimated,” said the team headed by Yuelong Shu from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Beijing.