(CIDRAP News) – The world registered fewer human infections with H5N1 avian influenza in 2012, but the fatality rate was a little higher than in previous years, the World Health Organization (WHO) noted in a recent review of the year's data.
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Freidl GS, Meijer A, deBruin E, et al. Influenza at the animal-human interface: a review of the literature for viological evidence of human infection with swine or avian influenza viruses other than A(H5N1). Euro Surveill 2014 May 8;19(18)
Grgic H, Costa M, Friendship RM, et al. Molecular characterization of H3N2 influenza A viruses isolated from Ontario swine in 2011 and 2012. Virol J 2014 Nov 22;11:194
Hause BM, Collin EA, Liu R, et al. Characterization of novel influenza virus in cattle and swine: proposal for a new genus in the Orthomyxoviridae family. MBio 2014 Mar 4;5(2):e00031
Kirisawa R, Ogasawara Y, Yoshitake H, et al. Genomic reassortants of pandemic A (H1N1) 2009 virus and endemic porcine H1 and H3 viruses in swine in Japan. J Vet Med Sci 2014 (published online Jul 24)
Liang H, Lam TTY, Fan X, et al. Expansion of genotypic diversity and establishment of 2009 H1N1 pandemic-origin internal genes in pigs in China. J Virol 2014 (published online Jul 9)
