FAQ: How viruses mutate

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 08:07 in Health & Medicine

More than100 people have died in Mexico as a result of an outbreak of swine flu, a strain of the influenza virus that normally targets pigs but has occasionally mutated enough to infect and spread in humans.

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