New flu virus may be a real mongrel, study shows

Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 21:56 in Biology & Nature

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new virus that has killed as many as 177 people and spread globally is a mongrel that appears to have mixed with another hybrid virus containing swine, bird and human bits, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

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