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Influenza virus is the causative agent for many upper respiratory diseases and can potentially cause pandemics with high mobility and mortality [ 96].
Influenza A viruses that infect humans can undergo a dramatic antigenic change, called antigenic shift, which generates viruses that cause pandemics.
The age effect is seen because influenza A viruses - the kind considered most likely to cause pandemics - have evolved into two major branches known as type 1 and type 2 flus.
Type A viruses are the ones with the potential to cause pandemics, because they can undergo major genetic changes suddenly and emerge in forms to which most people have little or no resistance.
Dr. Fauci and others who support the research say it may help explain how flu viruses that start out in animals adapt to humans and become transmissible, and therefore able to cause pandemics.
The Texas Biomedical Research Institute, which has about 90 chimpanzees that the N.I.H. supports, said that 50 are not enough to enable rapid development of preventions and cures for hepatitis B and C, Ebola and new or emerging viruses that could cause pandemics.
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Influenza virus may cause pandemic in the world.
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A study conducted between 2006 and 2010 suggested that prolonged warning of a future pandemic was likely to cause pandemic fatigue in the public [ 6, 7].
Only the O1 serogroup strains cause pandemic cholera, a potentially deadly disease characterized by severe watery diarrhea (Harris et al, 2012).
So far, no H5 viruses have caused pandemics because of their inability to transmit between people in the wild.
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