Deciphering the sharp decrease in H7N9 human infections

• Autores: Xu Zhang, Tingting Luo-, Yongyi Shen
• Localización: Trends in microbiology, ISSN 0966-842X, Vol. 26, Nº. 12, 2018, págs. 971-973
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The H7N9 virus has caused five waves of human infections since 2013. However, human infections have almost disappeared in the past year. In a recent study, Shi et al. revealed that the usage of a bivalent H5/H7 vaccine successfully prevented chicken infections, and thus prevented, and nearly eliminated, human infections