The Alabama Department of Public Health announced that the mysterious respiratory illness found in seven individuals is a combination of multiple viruses.
Experts feared that the elusive illness could have been the new strain of bird flu, H7N9, or the novel SARS-like coronavirus that has had public health officials around the world on edge.
But the seven cases found in Alabama were deemed a combination of the common cold and a strain of influenza.
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