禽流感：一场蓄势待发的大流行？

Avian influenza: a pandemic waiting in the wings?

作者信息

Hampson Alan W

机构信息

Australian Influenza Specialist Group, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

出版信息

Emerg Med Australas. 2006 Oct-Dec;18(5-6):420-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2006.00908.x.

DOI:10.1111/j.1742-6723.2006.00908.x

PMID:17083630

Abstract

Recent widespread outbreaks of avian influenza and, associated with these a growing number of human infections with a high mortality rate, have raised concerns that this might be the prelude to a severe pandemic of human influenza. As a background to these concerns the present article reviews influenza as a human disease, its origins and the involvement of other species, properties of the influenza viruses and the current status of influenza prevention and control.

摘要

近期禽流感的广泛爆发，以及与之相关的人类感染病例不断增加且死亡率很高，引发了人们对这可能是一场严重人类流感大流行前奏的担忧。作为这些担忧的背景，本文回顾了作为人类疾病的流感、其起源以及其他物种的参与情况、流感病毒的特性以及流感防控的现状。