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‘It’s not a new virus’: WHO expert after study warns of new H1N1 strain in China with pandemic potential

A World Health Organisation (WHO) expert has sought to calm fears following the disclosure that a new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus, which has pandemic potential, was spreading fast among workers on Chinese pig...

16 July, 2020

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Swine flu virus in India ‘has become more virulent’ since 2009 outbreak

Since December 2014, swine flu has claimed the lives of over 1,300 people in India, making it the worst outbreak of the virus in the country since 2009. But according to a new study by researchers from the Massachusetts...

16 March, 2015

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