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Swine flu: New H1N1 virus in Chinese pigs has potential to cause global pandemic

A new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus with the potential to “transmit efficiently in humans” and cause a pandemic has been discovered in China. Scientists isolated 139 H1N1 swine flu viruses in pigs in...

4 January, 2016

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Early vaccination could save lives, dollars in next flu pandemic, study shows

Early vaccination could save both lives and money during the next flu pandemic, according to a study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers. Using lessons learned from the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic...

26 May, 2014

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Mutation could cause ‘severe flu pandemic’

The head of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says the current strain of bird flu that is causing illness and deaths in China cannot spark a pandemic in its current form – but he added that there...

9 May, 2013

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Swine flu’s shocking real toll: 265,000 more than anyone realised

The swine flu pandemic of 2009 was responsible for the deaths of thousands more people than originally thought, according to a new report published yesterday. A study conducted for The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal...

27 June, 2012

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