海豹流感爆發是否對人類危險？

Is the Seal Flu Outbreak Dangerous to Humans?
海豹流感爆發是否對人類危險？
2012-08-01
US News reporters Simon Owens and Jason Koebler sit down to discuss a recent seal flu outbreak discovered off the New England coast. Officials found 162 dead harbor seals in what was then thought to be a pneumonia outbreak. But a new investigation by Columbia University researchers has found that the dead seals had a new mutation of the influenza A virus -- or bird flu. Is it dangerous？
美國新聞記者西蒙歐文斯和賈森高寶拿坐下來討論最近發現在新英格蘭海岸的海豹流感疫情，官員發現在當時被認為是肺炎爆發結果的162隻海港死海豹。但新近由美國哥倫比亞大學研究人員的調查已發現，死海豹有A型流感病毒 -- 或禽流感 -- 的新變種，是危險的嗎？