Us Scientists Are Studying New Virus H7N9

Us Scientists Are Studying New Virus H7N9.
The H7N9 bird flu virus does not yet have the proficiency to obviously infect people, a new study indicates. The findings annul some previous research suggesting that H7N9 poses an imminent commination of causing a global pandemic. The H7N9 virus killed several dozen people in China earlier this year. Analyses of virus samples from that outbreak suggest that H7N9 is still mainly adapted for infecting birds, not people, according to scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California The on is published in the Dec 6, 2013 descendant of the list Science.

And "Luckily, H7N9 viruses just don't yet seem well adapted for binding to good-natured receptors," Ian Wilson, a professor of structural biology and chairman of the department of integrative structural and computational biology, said in a Scripps news release. "Because publications to season have implied that H7N9 has adapted to human receptors, we felt we should constitute a clear statement about this," James Paulson, chair of the department of cell and molecular biology, said in the dispatch release. H7N9 flu viruses infect birds, causing few or no symptoms. Until this year, H7N9 strains had never been reported in humans.

But in February, dozens of common people in two urban areas of eastern China began to come down with H7N9 flu, and most of them became monastically ill. When the outbreak was mostly over by the end of May, there were 132 kindly cases confirmed by a laboratory and 37 deaths - a destruction rate of nearly 30 percent. Public health officials were alarmed by the outbreak and there were concerns that H7N9 might trigger a broad pandemic ante health. "These results suggest that we should continue to observe H7N9 and consider if it undergoes any changes that make it more likely to spread in the human population".