raising concern over the possibility of an upcoming influenza pandemic. The human H5N1 virus was not a reassortant like the 1957 and 1968 pandemic strains; instead, all of the viral genes ...

In April 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the identification of a new influenza A virus in two children in San Diego, California. The virus’s genome includes ...

The detection of a different more rare strain of avian influenza is raising alarm as ... to assess the risk of emergence of this novel reassortant virus with potential transmissibility to public ...