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Bird Flu Detected in Three People in Iowa, Study Finds
Aug. 1, 2006
A duck hunter and two wildlife workers in Iowa have tested positive for a nonlethal form of avian flu, according to a team of U.S scientists. Their study is the first to suggest that bird flu can be transmitted to humans from wild birds.
"We did not detect H5N1, the virus that has caused such a high death rate in the humans it has infected," said the study's lead author, James Gill, who is a disease specialist at the University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory in Iowa City.
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Website: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060731-bird-flu.html
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