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Flu Virus Always Comes from Asia |
Flue strikes Europe and North America each winter. But the virus is not native: it always comes from the agglomerated cities of East and Southeast Asia, where new strains of deadly influenza viruses evolve and expand around the globe, as revealed by two new studies published in the journal Science.
"For over 60 years, the global migration of influenza viruses has been a mystery," said Colin Russell of the University of Cambridge in the UK, co-author of one of the researches.
His team inv...
Posted originally: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:05:00 GMT
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