Us Scientists Are Studying New Virus H7N9.
The H7N9 bird flu virus does not yet have the facility to without even trying infect people, a new study indicates. The findings nullify some previous research suggesting that H7N9 poses an imminent omen 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 scrutiny is published in the Dec 6, 2013 exit of the scrapbook Science.