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Swine flu attention turns to the tropics

Nature volume 459, pages 490–491 (2009)Cite this article

New flu strains are more likely to arise in equatorial countries, where influenza is present the year round and surveillance is poor.

With the influenza season over in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, and just getting under way on the other side of the world, scientists are watching the A(H1N1) swine flu virus to see where it goes next and whether it will reassort with other flu viruses, or mutate, to cause more severe disease or acquire resistance to antiviral drugs.

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