Word: h3n2
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...poultry farmers have already learned that hard lesson, having faced outbreaks of other avian flus as recently as 2002 and 2004. H5N1 is only one of more than 100 subtypes of the influenza A virus. The majority of the subtypes are found in birds. A few, such as H3N2 and H1N1, have adapted to infect humans. The 2002 avian outbreak, which struck in Virginia, was the H7N2 subtype, and it illustrated the importance of early detection. "The outbreak was not contained in time and spread to 200 farms up and down the Shenandoah Valley," says Lobb...
...around 30% of school-age children were affected. It arrived in Ireland in early September and soon spread to Britain, where it has killed six children. Simultaneously it appeared in Spain, Portugal and Norway, and is now spreading across the rest of Europe. In France, a different strain, the "H3N2" variant, combined with gastroenteritis, has laid low up to 2 million people. Eleven children have died from a severe outbreak of flu in the U.S. Health authorities in Europe say the numbers are higher than average, but not excessively. They are at a loss to explain...