Tag H6N1

Rare H6N1 bird flu strain makes first human appearance

For the first time ever, the H6N1 bird flu has turned up in a human being, a 20-year-old Taiwanese woman who was hospitalized earlier this year after she developed a high fever, cough and shortness of breath. According to the Associated Press (AP), the woman somehow came down with the virus, which had previously been isolated to birds, even though she had not come into contact with any live fowl. The woman, whose name has not been publicly released, worked in a deli and nowhere near live...

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