Swine Flu Does Not Contain Human and Bird Genes

Recent developments in the analysis of the H1N1 swine influenza virus have shown that the lethal viral strain does not combine genes from humans, birds and pigs, as first thought, but that it's rather made up of a combination of two swine flu strains, which, brought together, are deadly ... [ read more >> ]

Somewhere in Mexico, a yet-unidentified pig had the misfortune of getting infected with two strains of swine flu at the same time, and then transmitted the virus to humans

Image comment: Somewhere in Mexico, a yet-unidentified pig had the misfortune of getting infected with two strains of swine flu at the same time, and then transmitted the virus to humans
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Somewhere in Mexico, a yet-unidentified pig had the misfortune of getting infected with two strains of swine flu at the same time, and then transmitted the virus to humans