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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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Aggressive swine flu virus hits India

A surge in swine flu infections has killed more than 800 people in India and is challenging health workers, who say the virus is harder to treat than the version that caused a global pandemic in 2009. High-risk patients...

3 March, 2015

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Virus that caused flu pandemic dominates again

Young adults, beware. The swine flu responsible for the pandemic five years ago is once again the dominant strain in North America. This doesn’t mean we are in the midst of another swine flu pandemic, but it does...

6 March, 2014

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Scientists closer to universal flu vaccine thanks to swine flu

A team of British scientists says it has made a ‘blueprint’ for a universal flu vaccine. Researchers at Imperial College London asked volunteers to donate blood samples just as the swine flu pandemic was...

23 September, 2013

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Insight: Pork industry hunts for deadly pig virus

The sudden and widespread appearance of a swine virus deadly to young pigs – one never before seen in North America – is raising questions about the bio-security shield designed to protect the U.S. food...

29 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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Swine flu, not vaccine, may trigger narcolepsy

In Spring 2011, the number of narcolepsy cases in Beijing, China, multiplied threefold. Now, it looks like the swine flu pandemic of the previous winter was to blame.

25 August, 2011

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