New Insights About the Novel H1N1 Flu Virus

July 13, 2009 on 8:44 pm | In News | No Comments
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New Insights Into Novel H1N1

Several research groups funded by NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) have recently put together a picture of where the novel H1N1 virus came from and how it evolved. They discovered that the novel H1N1 virus is a descendent not only of swine viruses but also of the H1N1 virus that caused the 1918 pandemic, which killed 40-50 million people worldwide.

Electron micrograph image of an influenza virus.
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