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|Articles|December 20, 2007

New swine flu has avian genes

National Report -- Researchers have identified a new strain of swine influenza that is molecularly composed of both avian and swine influenza genes.

National Report - 12/20/07 - Researchers have identified a new strain of swine influenza that is molecularly composed of both avian and swine influenza genes.

Belonging in the group of H2 influenza viruses that last infected humans in a late-1950s pandemic, H2N3 was discovered by a scientific research team including staff from the United States Department of Agriculture's Agriculture Research Service (ARS), University of Minnesota,


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