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Since May, 2006 Center for Disease Control has started to fix extension of a new and more dangerous variety of a virus which, as a rule, causes common cold.

Experts assert that adenovirus-14 has killed 10 people and was the cause of long hospitalization of 50 patients. The reason of death was a new variety of adenovirus-14, which cased pneumonia.

Cases of infection with adenovirus-14 were fixed New York, Oregon, Washington and Texas. The special anxiety of epidemiologists is caused with the increased frequency of complications among young patients.

For today it is known more than 50 varieties of adenoviruses, which are mainly RVI’s activators. Experts assert that serious complications are possible at children, old men, and also at persons with the weakened immunity.