'Networking' turns up flu viruses with close ties to pandemic of 2009
Monday, June 13, 2011 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Scientists using new mathematical and computational techniques have identified six influenza A viruses that have particularly close genetic relationships to the H1N1 "swine" flu virus that swept through the United States beginning in the spring of 2009. That virus eventually killed almost 18,000 people worldwide.