International Team Issues Avian Flu Recommendations
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Sept. 28-As the avian flu, the H5N1 virus, continues to spread in Asia and threaten Europe's borders, an international team of physicians has issued clinical guidelines on detecting and managing the disease and containing transmission.
Writing in The New England Journal of Medicine, the clinicians offered advice on dealing with the evolving threat and the possible trajectory of the understudied pathogen.
So far, all the reported human infections have been from exposure to infected animals, and there have been no confirmed reports of efficient human-to-human transmission. Nevertheless, experts fear that risk could eventually materialize, said team leader Frederick G. Hayden, M.D., a professor of internal medicine and pathology at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center here.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Sept. 28-As the avian flu, the H5N1 virus, continues to spread in Asia and threaten Europe's borders, an international team of physicians has issued clinical guidelines on detecting and managing the disease and containing transmission.
Writing in The New England Journal of Medicine, the clinicians offered advice on dealing with the evolving threat and the possible trajectory of the understudied pathogen.
So far, all the reported human infections have been from exposure to infected animals, and there have been no confirmed reports of efficient human-to-human transmission. Nevertheless, experts fear that risk could eventually materialize, said team leader Frederick G. Hayden, M.D., a professor of internal medicine and pathology at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center here.
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