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

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

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...

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Main Authors: 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 Carney, Bo Shu, LaShondra Berman, Thomas Stark, John Barnes, Fiona Havers, Patrick Yang, Susan C. Trock, Alicia Fry, Larisa Gubareva, Joseph S. Bresee, James Stevens, Demetre Daskalakis, Dakai Liu, Christopher Lee, Mia Kim Torchetti, Sandra Newbury, Francine Cigel, Kathy L. Toohey-Kurth, Kirsten St. George, David Wentworth, Stephen Lindstrom, C. Todd Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-12-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Avian influenza
A(H7N2)
cat-to-human transmission
interspecies transmission
animal shelter
human infection with H7N2
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/12/17-0798_article
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059

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