New avian flu virus emerges in Taiwan: researchers working to prevent infection
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
A novel strain of influenza A, H6N1, has been reported in a 20-year old woman in Taiwan. Health officials fear the virus, which is very similar in structure to the H7N9 avian flu virus which killed 45 and infected 139 people in China last year, may infect more people.