1918 Flu Resulted In Current Lineage Of H1N1 Swine Influenza Viruses
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 22:35
in Health & Medicine
In 1918 a human influenza virus known as the Spanish flu spread through the central United States while a swine respiratory disease occurred concurrently. Researchers have found that the virus causing the pandemic was able to infect and replicate in pigs, but did not kill them, unlike in other mammalian hosts like monkeys, mice and ferrets where the infection has been lethal.