The 2009 H1N1 Virus Is Genetically Changed Over The Past 1,5 Years.
Although the pandemic H1N1 "swine" flu that emerged finish vernal has stayed genetically firm in humans, researchers in Asia believe the virus has undergone genetic changes in pigs during the ultimate year and a half. The tremble is that these genetic changes, or reassortments, could mount a more virulent bug. "The particular reassortment we found is not itself no doubt to be of major human health risk, but it is an indication of what may be occurring on a wider scale, undetected," said Malik Peiris, an influenza first-rate and co-author of a dissertation published in the June 18 pay-off of Science your vimax. "Other reassortments may occur, some of which pose greater risks".
The findings underscore the power of monitoring how the influenza virus behaves in pigs who is chairman and professor of microbiology at the University of Hong Kong and detailed director of the university's Pasteur Research Center. "Obviously, there's a lot of production going on and whenever you view some unstable situation, there's the potential for something novel to emerge that could be dangerous," added Dr John Treanor, professor of c physic and of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.
