Bird Flu, SARS and Beyond

In the politically sensitive year of 1997, Hong Kong experienced an outbreak of avian flu when the deadly H5N1 virus unprecedentedly jumped the species barrier from chickens and infected human beings. Hong Kong decided to slaughter over a million chickens, and the virus was stopped in its tracks. In...

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Main Author: Ching, Frank
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Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120366/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6316-9_14
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7120366 2023-05-15T15:34:15+02:00 Bird Flu, SARS and Beyond Ching, Frank 2018-03-15 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120366/ https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6316-9_14 en eng http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120366/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6316-9_14 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Article Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6316-9_14 2020-04-12T00:28:19Z In the politically sensitive year of 1997, Hong Kong experienced an outbreak of avian flu when the deadly H5N1 virus unprecedentedly jumped the species barrier from chickens and infected human beings. Hong Kong decided to slaughter over a million chickens, and the virus was stopped in its tracks. In 2003, Hong Kong was the epicenter of the SARS pandemic, which originated in Guangdong province. The Faculty of Medicine played key roles in both instances, with its Microbiology Department successfully identifying a novel coronavirus as being responsible for SARS. Hong Kong learned from its experience and took action to combat the emergence of new infectious diseases. Such vigilance paid off in 2009, when swine flu swept the world, and in 2013, when a novel avian flu H7N9 emerged in China. Text Avian flu PubMed Central (PMC) Slaughter ENVELOPE(-85.633,-85.633,-78.617,-78.617) 381 434 Singapore
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