Origins of the pandemic: Study reveals lessons of H1N1
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 21:00
in Health & Medicine
As H1N1 'Swine Flu' returns to the national headlines a new research paper reveals the key lessons about the origins of the 2009 pandemic. The paper, published today in BioEssays, reveals how the pandemic challenges the traditional understanding of 'antigenic shift' , given that the virus emerged from an existing influenza subtype.