Researchers Describe History Of Swine Flu And Warn About Using Extinct Viruses

In a leading medical journal this week US researchers describe the 90-year history of swine flu and warn about working with “freezer” viruses, which they suspect is how an H1N1 virus that closely resembles a temporarily “extinct” 1950s strain resurrected some 20 years later and continues to circulate as a seasonal flu strain today.

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Filed under: Flu / SARS on June 30th, 2009