Scientists find H1N1 flu virus prevalent in animals in Africa
Friday, September 23, 2011 - 05:30
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA life scientists and their colleagues have discovered the first evidence of the H1N1 virus in animals in Africa. In one village in northern Cameroon, a staggering 89 percent of the pigs studied had been exposed to the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu.
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