pH7 Magazine - Transmission Control

Steps must be taken to prevent the genetic mixing of different influenza sub-types, during outbreak of avain flu, if we are to avoid another major pandemic, write Professor Paul R Hunter and Dr Diana Bel

SINCE DECEMBER 2003, eight Eastern Asian countries have reported national outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in domestic poultry, mainly chickens and ducks. So far, over 100 million birds have died as a result of the infection or slaughtered in the apparently futile attempt to control the spread of the infection.