Kate Kelland
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Scientists Race to Gauge Pandemic Risk of New Bird Flu
Genetic sequence data on a deadly strain of bird flu previously unknown in people show the virus has already acquired some mutations that might make it more likely to cause a human pandemic, scientists say. But there is no evidence so far that the H7N9 flu—now known to have infected nine people in China, killing …
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Scientists Discover How Deadly New Virus Infects Human Cells
Scientists have worked out how a deadly new virus that was unknown in humans until last year is able to infect human cells and cause severe, potentially fatal damage to the lungs. In one of the first detailed studies of the virus—which emerged in the Middle East and has so far infected 15 people worldwide, …
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Brit Dies after Contracting New SARS-Like Virus
A British man infected with a new virus from the same family as SARS has died, health officials said on Tuesday, bringing the worldwide death toll from the previously unknown disease to six. The virus, called novel coronavirus or NCoV, was unknown in humans until it emerged in the Middle East last year. There have …
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