amid an unsettling report now of tamiflu resistance in the danish a(h1n1) affected person, comes a research while in the new england journal of medicine tracing the swine flu's 90-year evolution.
the current flu strain has genetic roots in an sickness that sickened pigs at a swine show in 1918 in cedar rapids,
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here's what possible went down. simultaneously the 1918 flu pandemic was spreading amid people,
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in accordance with the authors on the new paper,
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however the next yr h1n1 reemerged in people inside the soviet union, hong kong, and northeastern china. the genetic origin of that 1977 strain turns out not to be the 1976 fort dix strain. instead, it was closely related to a 1950 human strain.
which means that given the genetic similarity on the two strains, reemergence was likely due to an accidental release during laboratory studies on the 1950 strain that had been preserved as a "freezer" virus.
ouch. hate it when that happens.
the authors hypothesize that concerns regarding the fort dix outbreak stimulated a flurry of research on h1n1 viruses in 1976,
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or maybe it wasn't such an accidental a release? conspiracists,
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