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The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 169 - 172, February 2014
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doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70227-5Cite or Link Using DOI
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Published Online: 28 November 2013
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A possible outbreak of swine influenza, 1892
Prof David M Morens MD a Corresponding AuthorEmail Address, Prof Jeffery K Taubenberger MD b
Summary
Influenza A viruses are globally enzootic in swine populations. Swine influenza has been recognised only since 1918, but an anecdotal report suggests that a swine-influenza epizootic might have occurred in England in 1892, at the same time as an explosive epidemic (or pandemic recurrence) of human influenza. This outbreak suggests that the ecobiological association between human and swine influenza could extend to before 1918. By contrast with the recent documentation of swine influenza, influenza in horses has been well documented for hundreds of years, and was often linked temporally and geographically to epidemics of human influenza. Both decreased contact between people and horses, and the concomitant increase in swine production over the past century, might have altered the character and dynamics of influenza host-switch events between people and domestic mammals.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(13)70227-5/abstract?rss=yes
<Previous Article
doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70227-5Cite or Link Using DOI
This article can be found in the following collections: Infectious Diseases (Respiratory tract infections); Respiratory Medicine (Respiratory tract infections)
Published Online: 28 November 2013
Copyright ? 2014 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
A possible outbreak of swine influenza, 1892
Prof David M Morens MD a Corresponding AuthorEmail Address, Prof Jeffery K Taubenberger MD b
Summary
Influenza A viruses are globally enzootic in swine populations. Swine influenza has been recognised only since 1918, but an anecdotal report suggests that a swine-influenza epizootic might have occurred in England in 1892, at the same time as an explosive epidemic (or pandemic recurrence) of human influenza. This outbreak suggests that the ecobiological association between human and swine influenza could extend to before 1918. By contrast with the recent documentation of swine influenza, influenza in horses has been well documented for hundreds of years, and was often linked temporally and geographically to epidemics of human influenza. Both decreased contact between people and horses, and the concomitant increase in swine production over the past century, might have altered the character and dynamics of influenza host-switch events between people and domestic mammals.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(13)70227-5/abstract?rss=yes