Northern Kentucky University

The little boy in Hong Kong seven years ago had a type A influenza, H5N1, a bird flu. H5N1 wasn't unfamiliar to flu watchers. It had been isolated in wild birds as far back as the early 1960's. But this avian flu had never been known to infect a human being. An avian flu can occasionally jump from a bird to a person. Nature is fluky. ................
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