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Nature 442, 490-491 (3 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/422490b; Published online 2 August 2006

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H5N1 virus fails to cause epidemic in ferret experiment.

Researchers have tried to create a pandemic H5N1 influenza strain — and failed.Simply mixing genes from an H5N1 bird-flu strain with those from an H3N2 human strain did not result in a strain that was readily transmissible, at least among ferrets.

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