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A small genetic change makes flu virus deadly
A tiny change in one of the influenza virus’s 10 genes is key to making certain strains of the virus especially virulent to humans, scientists report in the Sept. 7 issue of Science. This discovery helps explain why an influenza outbreak four years ago in Hong Kong killed an unusually high proportion of the people it infected.
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Message posted by: Wouter Kalle
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