Did leak from a laboratory cause swine flu pandemic?

The Independent by Steve Connor | Jun. 30, 2009 (Special Report)
Same strain of influenza was released by accident three decades ago

It has swept across the world killing at least 300 people and infecting thousands more. Yet the swine flu pandemic might not have happened had it not been for the accidental release of the same strain of influenza virus from a research laboratory in the late 1970s, according to a new study. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 2, 2009

The article provides interesting forensic study of how swine flu may have made it's reappearance.

This does not add to confidence in your local germ warfare factory.

“Careful study of the genetic origin of the 1977 virus showed that it was closely related to a 1950 strain, but dissimilar to influenza ‘A’ (H1N1) strains from both 1947 and 1957. This finding suggested that the 1977 outbreak strain had been preserved since 1950. The re-emergence was probably an accidental release from a laboratory source,” according to the study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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