Swine flu news - Eqypt

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Tue, 15 May 2012 19:43:39 GMT

Ahram Online

Egypt's trashmen look to next president to ease traditional hardships
Ahram Online
The government sanctioned the mass slaughter of some 300000 pigs in Egypt in response to the possible spread of the swine flu (H1N1), despite copious scientific evidence that pigs did not, in fact, transmit the virus. The effect was devastating, ...

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Fri, 18 May 2012 18:45:07 GMT

Designer Flu: How scientists made a killer virus airborne — and who should know
Science News
Strictly speaking, the Wisconsin group's transmissible virus is not H5N1 bird flu virus. Instead it is a composite of H5N1 and the H1N1 “swine flu” virus that caused a pandemic in 2009. To create the combination virus, the researchers replaced a ...

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Wed, 02 May 2012 21:24:57 GMT

GovExec.com

One of two nearly censored bird flu papers published
GovExec.com
... the University of Wisconsin (Madison) describes how he genetically engineered H5N1 bird flu—the virus that's been decimating poultry in Asia, Egypt, and elsewhere—using pieces of the virus that caused the 2009 pandemic of H1N1 swine flu in people.
Bird flu viruses have potential to cause a 'human pandemic'The Hindu
Mutant flu paper is finally published, reveals pandemic potential of wild virusesDiscover Magazine (blog)

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