It’s flu season, and public health officials and infectious disease experts at the University of California-San Francisco are paying close attention to new strains of influenza. They’re concerned with a new strain of avian flu that could mutate and become more easily transmitted. Currently, to contract avian flu, you have to have direct contact with an infected bird; the disease isn’t able to be transmitted between people. The experts are also keeping an eye on new, drug-resistant strains of flu reported in Australia during the flu season there.
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