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What is The 1997 bird flu pandemic was caused by which of the following strain? and explain in detail?
Human infections with an influenza H5N1 was first repoed in Hong Kong in 1997. Ref: Epidemiology of communicable diseases Park's textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 21stedition, page-330.