New reports sharpen clinical picture of recent human H5N1 illnesses in US and Canada
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 Two groups of investigators today fleshed out fuller clinical understanding of North American patients recently infected with H5N1 avian influenza, one of them describing a Canadian teen who had a severe infection and the other reviewing illness features of 46 US patients, most of whom had mild infections following exposure to sick dairy cows or poultry. The teams published their reports today in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the
