Pigs, poultry, and pandemic influenza: how zoonotic pathogens threaten human health

[tetano]

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2011;719:59-66.
Pigs, poultry, and pandemic influenza: how zoonotic pathogens threaten human health.
Kuiken T, Fouchier R, Rimmelzwaan G, van den Brand J, van Riel D, Osterhaus A.
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Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, t.kuiken@erasmusmc.nl.

PMID:
22125035
[PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22125035

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Pigs, poultry, and pandemic influenza: how zoonotic pathogens threaten human health

I wish there was an abstract for this.

 

[gsgs]

Re: Pigs, poultry, and pandemic influenza: how zoonotic pathogens threaten human health

http://www.springerlink.com/content/x66m591gwgr2u616/

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Pigs, poultry, and pandemic influenza: how zoonotic pathogens threaten human health

Thanks Gsgs!

excerpts:

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Animals, and wild animals in particular, are considered to be the source of more than 70% of all emerging infections in humans.

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To contain and eradicate zoonotic influenza viruses requires not only strategic virus surveillance of both animal and human populations, but also a better understanding of the hurdles that such a virus needs to jump over in order to cross the species barrier and cause a human pandemic.

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http://www.springerlink.com/content/x66m591gwgr2u616/