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Offline Jim  
#1 Posted : Monday, October 8, 2007 6:01:57 AM(UTC)
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CIDRAP News, 10/5/07: An international research team led by the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW-Madison) has identified a key mutation that would arm the H5N1 avian influenza virus with one of the tools it needs to more easily infect and spread among humans.

The mutation consists of a single amino acid change that improves the virus' ability to infect cells in the upper respiratory tract of mammals, according to a press release today from UW-Madison. The research group, headed by virologist Yoshih....



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