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Nature.com has been on the forefront of covering both avian and (now) H1N1 pandemic flu for years. Declan Butler was writing about H5N1 more than 5 years ago, and truth be told, it was his blog that got me really interested in the subject.
You’ll find probably a dozen of his articles referenced in this blog, many of those coming since the emergence of the H1N1 virus last spring.
Today Butler, along with Nature feature writer Brendan Maher, take a hard look at 3 crucial questions regarding the H1N1 `swine’ flu virus.
Chances that the pandemic virus will reassort?
There's way too much here to excerpt, and so I’ll just tell you to go read it.
Published online 11 November 2009 | Nature 462, 154-157 (2009) | doi:10.1038/462154a
Swine flu: One killer virus, three key questions : Nature News
As the world mobilizes against the H1N1 flu pandemic, researchers are working to answer pressing questions about the virus. Brendan Maher visited pathologists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who are looking at how the virus kills, and a New York laboratory that is testing how it spreads. Declan Butler spent time at a French biosafety level-4 facility where researchers are working out the chances that the pandemic virus will reassort with the H5N1 avian flu virus.
