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Published online 16 June 2009 | 459, 894-895 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459894b
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Patchy pig monitoring may hide flu threat
Experts call for increased surveillance of animals.
Public-health experts are warning that a lack of surveillance may be allowing the 2009 pandemic H1N1 flu virus to go undetected in pigs. This raises the risk that the virus could circulate freely between humans and pigs, making it more likely to reassort into a deadlier strain, they say.
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Hope the vaccines would come out soon and cure us human and the poor pigs.