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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tara Cobham

‘Dog flu’ adapting to infect humans, warn scientists

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A “dog flu” virus is adapting in the direction of being able to infect people, scientists have warned.

The virus is descended from a type of bird flu called H3N2, which first infected dogs in roughly 2006 and has now evolved to become a mammalian-adapted form of avian influenza.

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