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Pandemic potential

Does the isolation of an H5N1 virus from a fatal case of avian flu represent a strain that could more easily be transmitted from person to person?

See the summary in Nature Reviews Microbiology and the full story in Journal of Virology

Posted by Julie Clayton on September 21, 2007
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