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Editor, Senior Moderator
The influenza A virus ranks among our planet's least-controlled pathogens, resulting in seasonal epidemics and even global pandemics. The H1N1 virus of 2009 -- a new type of influenza A virus -- caused the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But despite the fast and furious spread of H1N1 that year, it turned out to affect the lungs much in the way the seasonal flu does. Using a new type of test developed at the University of Leeds "might have been a way to identify how lethal the 2009 swine flu pandemic was going to be, lessening worldwide panic," John Barr of the university's Faculty of Biological Sciences said in a school news release.
The biologists working on the test like to describe it as "barcoding" virus strains. They are essentially building a bank of molecular signatures that can quickly identify, based on cellular behavior, how severe new virus strains are likely to be.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-5...mutated-strains/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title
But despite the fast and furious spread of H1N1 that year, it turned out to affect the lungs much in the way the seasonal flu does. Using a new type of test developed at the University of Leeds "might have been a way to identify how lethal the 2009 swine flu pandemic was going to be, lessening worldwide panic," John Barr of the university's Faculty of Biological Sciences said in a school news release.
The biologists working on the test like to describe it as "barcoding" virus strains. They are essentially building a bank of molecular signatures that can quickly identify, based on cellular behavior, how severe new virus strains are likely to be.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-5...mutated-strains/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title