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Timeline: The secret history of swine flu
Posted on November 8th, 2009 No comments
Six months ago, swine flu emerged as a massive threat to global health. It seemed to come out of nowhere, but our timeline explains how the origins of the H1N1 pandemic go back more than a century1889
Prior to 1889, the main flu virus circulating in humans has been from the H1 family. But this year, a new strain of H2 flu emerges in Russia and spreads around the world, killing about 1 million people. Afterwards, H2 replaces H1 in humans. Such replacements seem to be a regular feature of flu pandemics. Read the rest of this entry »
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Lies, half truths and media hype of swine flu
Posted on August 26th, 2009 No comments
Every year a few lakhs of people die of all castes of influenza in this world unnoticed and uncovered by our holy media. May be the virus has mutated a bit this time round.However, recently there was a panic in the air a few months ago predicting a deadly pandemic of a new variety of ‘Flu’. It was in April 2009 when there was no way in science to predict the oncoming of an epidemic.
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