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We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of K. Shu-wing, J. Chan, and the doctors and nurses of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong; P. Lo and the doctors at the Baptist Hospital, Hong Kong; M. F. C. Chan, P. T. Saw, K. H. Mak, and T. H. Tsang of the Hong Kong Department of Health; J. S. Tam of Chinese University of Hong Kong; K. F. Shortridge of the University of Hong Kong; K. Liu of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hong Kong; D. Suarez of the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Athens, GA; and H. Izurieta, C. Dentinger, T. Voss, G. Perez-Oronoz, J. Love, W. Gamble, and I. Baker of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. We thank R. G. Webster of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, for sharing oligonucleotide primers for and monoclonal antibodies against the H5 HA, and E. Claas and A. Osterhaus of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, for sharing primer sequences.