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Re: What would we have done if swine flu hit during a regional?
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That'll calm people down.  Good thing it's actually H1N1.  |
Sorry, my mistake -- just repeating the transposition that an earlier poster made. See the nicely detailed explanation by Vikesrock a few posts further down. The virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic described in the book I cited was H1N1. However,
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Viruses with the H1N1 subtype, including descendants of the 1918 Spanish Flu, cause about half of all influenza infections so the connection between the subtypes of the two flus is fairly inconsequential.
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