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Influenza
Data on influenza published by researchers at Pennsylvania State University
July 29th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Plos Pathogens, "The H1N1 subtype of influenza A virus has caused substantial morbidity and mortality in humans, first documented in the global pandemic of 1918 and continuing to the present day. Despite this disease burden, the evolutionary history of the A/H1N1 virus is not well understood, particularly whether there is a virological basis for several notable epidemics of unusual severity in the 1940s and 1950s." "Using a data set of 71 representative complete genome sequences sampled between 1918 and 2006, we show that segmental reassortment has played an important role in the genomic evolution of A/H1N1...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-07-29)
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