H10N7

H10N7 is a subtype of the species Influenza A virus (sometimes called bird flu virus). In 2004 in Egypt H10N7 was reported for the first time in humans. It caused illness in two one-year old infants, residents of Ismaillia, Egypt. One child’s father is a poultry merchant.^[1]

The first reported H10N7 outbreak in the US occurred in Minnesota on two turkey farms in 1979 and on a third in 1980. “The clinical signs ranged from severe, with a mortality rate as high as 31%, to subclinical. Antigenically indistinguishable viruses were isolated from healthy mallards on a pond adjacent to the turkey farms”^[2]

References

↑ “EID Weekly Updates – Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas”. Pan American Health Organization. 2004-05-07. Retrieved 2007-10-20. line feed character in |title= at position 22 (help)
↑ Karunakaran D, Hinshaw V, Poss P, Newman J, Halvorson D (1983). “Influenza A outbreaks in Minnesota turkeys due to subtype H10N7 and possible transmission by waterfowl”. Avian Dis. 27 (2): 357–66. PMID 6870718.

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[1] “EID Weekly Updates – Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas”. Pan American Health Organization. 2004-05-07. Retrieved 2007-10-20. line feed character in |title= at position 22 (help)

[pmid6870718-2] Karunakaran D, Hinshaw V, Poss P, Newman J, Halvorson D (1983). “Influenza A outbreaks in Minnesota turkeys due to subtype H10N7 and possible transmission by waterfowl”. Avian Dis. 27 (2): 357–66. PMID 6870718.

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