Avian Influenza A(H7N2) Virus in Human Exposed to Sick Cats, New York, USA, 2016

Atanaska Marinova-Petkova,Jen Laplante,Yunho Jang,Brian Lynch,Natosha Zanders,Marisela Rodriguez,Joyce Jones,Sharmi Thor,Erin Hodges,Juan A. De La Cruz,Jessica A. Belser,Hua Yang,Paul J. Carney,Bo Shu,LaShondra Berman,Thomas Stark,John Barnes,Fiona Havers,Patrick Yang,Susan C. Trock,Alicia M. Fry,Larisa V. Gubareva,Joseph S. Bresee,James Stevens,Demetre Daskalakis,Dakai Liu,Christopher T. Lee,Mia Kim Torchetti,Sandra Newbury,Francine Cigel,Kathy Toohey-Kurth,Kirsten St. George,David E. Wentworth,Stephen Lindstrom,C. Todd Davis

Avian Influenza A(H7N2) Virus in Human Exposed to Sick Cats, New York, USA, 2016

2017

: An outbreak of influenza A(H7N2) virus in cats in a shelter in New York, NY, USA, resulted in zoonotic transmission. Virus isolated from the infected human was closely related to virus isolated from a cat; both were related to low pathogenicity avian influenza A(H7N2) viruses detected in the United States during the early 2000s.

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Virus
Immunology
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
Biology
Virology
influenza a
Pathogenicity
CATS
Outbreak
interspecies transmission

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