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Learn how scientists identified genetic clues that distinguish natural viral spillovers from lab-handled viruses — and why ...

The seasonal human flu virus called H1N1 – or swine flu – may have descended from the 1918 Spanish flu strain, new research suggests. The findings are based on the analysis of samples collected in ...

A new study has identified an influenza virus circulating in pigs that shows multiple traits associated with pandemic potential. Known as H1N2, the virus belongs to a lineage of flu viruses that ...

* WHO, governments accused of bending to drugs companies * WHO to hold and publish independent review of H1N1 * Poor countries lack access to H1N1 antivirals, vaccines By Jonathan Lynn GENEVA, Jan 12 ...

Kolkata: Two children have been admitted to a city private hospital with swine flu or H1N1, even as three others have tested ...

The World Health Organization meets next Tuesday to decide if the H1N1 flu pandemic has officially peaked. Cases of pandemic flu have been decreasing. However, a third wave of the flu had been ...

So sayeth the World Health Organization (WHO)—and they should know, since they were the ones who declared a full, phase six-level pandemic a little more than a year ago. Now it’s done—this morning WHO ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of swine flu that can infect humans and has the potential to cause a future pandemic, according to a study released on Monday, though scientists have ...

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