Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
google translated, from Spanish newssource
SCIENCE
Influenza A (H1N1) has come from the U.S.
2:24 p.m. - MADRID, Spain. (EFE). "Influenza A has its origin in the United States said today the director of Research Center for Brain and Disease
Emerging Infectious of Spain, Juan Jose Badiola, who recommended
vaccination against the new virus as the best way to prevent infection.
During a lunch conversation at the Club Siglo XXI in Madrid, Badiola said,
until now, the swine flu endemic is recorded every year in the
major North American pork industry had not gone beyond their
workers, affects 25% of them and 10% of veterinarians.
He recalled that the real name of this virus is the swine flu, although the
"powerful lobby" of the pig industry worldwide has ensured that the Organization
World Health by the change of A (H1N1).
On a possible mutation of the virus, Badiola said that in his opinion, is "very little likely ", and stressed that the greater the danger that the new virus
recombine with the H5N1 bird, whose lethality is 50 percent of
cases.
http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2009/10/20/uhora/cienc_2009102014240872.asp
SCIENCE
Influenza A (H1N1) has come from the U.S.
2:24 p.m. - MADRID, Spain. (EFE). "Influenza A has its origin in the United States said today the director of Research Center for Brain and Disease
Emerging Infectious of Spain, Juan Jose Badiola, who recommended
vaccination against the new virus as the best way to prevent infection.
During a lunch conversation at the Club Siglo XXI in Madrid, Badiola said,
until now, the swine flu endemic is recorded every year in the
major North American pork industry had not gone beyond their
workers, affects 25% of them and 10% of veterinarians.
He recalled that the real name of this virus is the swine flu, although the
"powerful lobby" of the pig industry worldwide has ensured that the Organization
World Health by the change of A (H1N1).
On a possible mutation of the virus, Badiola said that in his opinion, is "very little likely ", and stressed that the greater the danger that the new virus
recombine with the H5N1 bird, whose lethality is 50 percent of
cases.
http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2009/10/20/uhora/cienc_2009102014240872.asp