Avian Flu Jumped from Dying Son to Caregiver Father

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Mon, 04/07/2008 - 17:30

BEIJING -- A man who died late last year of highly pathogenic avian flu infected his father in one of the few "probable" cases of human-to-human transmission that have been reported, researchers here said.


 

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