Emergence of Fatal Influenza A Virus H5N5 Infection in Human

Funding

This work was partly supported by the Feature Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE-114-S-0023-A) in Taiwan.

Conflicts of Interest

The author declares no conflict of interest.

Use of AI and AI-Assisted Technologies

No AI tools were utilized for this paper.

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