Probable Person-to-Person Transmission of Avian Influenza A (H5N1)

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Authors

Kumnuan Ungchusak · Ministry of Public Health

Prasert Auewarakul · Siriraj Hospital

Scott F. Dowell · Ministry of Public Health

Rungrueng Kitphati

Wattana Auwanit

Pilaipan Puthavathana · Mahidol University

Mongkol Uiprasertkul · Mahidol University

Kobporn Boonnak

Abstract

Disease in the mother and aunt probably resulted from person-to-person transmission of this lethal avian influenzavirus during unprotected exposure to the critically ill index patient.

Topics & Keywords

Influenza Virus Research Studies Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 352, Issue 4, pp. 333-340

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa044021

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