Saint Louis University School of Medicine

New data on the genetic sequences of flu viruses may help establish parameters of future pandemics

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, December 16th, 2005

An article by Robert Belshe, MD, of Saint Louis University School of Medicine in a recent New England Journal of Medicine reviewed "spectacular achievements of contemporary molecular biology" that hold great importance as the world prepares for a possible flu pandemic.

These achievements, including a recent genetic sequencing and recreation of the virus from the 1918 flu pandemic, "may enable us to track viruses years before they develop the capacity to replicate with high efficiency in humans," Belshe writes.

The new knowledge of the genetic sequences of influenza viruses that predate the 1918 epidemic will be "extremely helpful in...

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Source: Medicine and Law Weekly (2005-12-16)

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