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Jul 2026
A lethal human H5N5 influenza virus isolate exhibits low pandemic risk traits
This work analyzed an isolate that resulted in a human fatality in 2025 and found that this strain lacks many key features of influenza viruses with epidemiological success in humans including reduced growth in human lung cultures, a pH of inactivation less than 5.0, and lack of transmission to cohoused recipient ferre...
Michelle N. Vu, Grace E. Quirk, Alexis E. Smathers et al.
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