As novas facetas e a ameaça da gripe aviária no mundo globalizado

• Published in: Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia e Medicina Laboratorial
• Main Authors: Granato, Celso Francisco Hernandes, Bellei, Nancy Cristina Junqueira
• Other Authors: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Universidade de Hamburgo Instituto Central de Microbiologia e Imunologia, Fleury Medicina e Saúde
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia ClínicaSociedade Brasileira de PatologiaSociedade Brasileira de Citopatologia 2007
• Subjects: Influenza; Avian flu; Emerging infections; Gripe aviária; Doenças emergentes; Aguda; Canada; Hamburgo; Holand; Torna
• Online Access: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/3830; https://doi.org/10.1590/S1676-24442007000400005

Influenza, or as it is best known, flu, is an acute respiratory infection caused by a virus that affects many different animal species from felines to birds, including humans.Ten years ago, initialy in Hong Kong and after that in Holand and Canada, outbreaks of avian flu have been increasingly repor...