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Posted Fri Apr 4 2008: from The Canadian Press:
Mutation of the common cold linked to four deaths http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1207341393
 Four seniors died at a Nanaimo, B.C. care home earlier this year and 57 others developed serious respiratory infections as a mutation of the common cold swept through the facility. The Vancouver Island Health Authority confirms an outbreak of human metapneumo virus, a recently discovered viral mutation, began Jan. 3 at Dufferin Place long-term care home. It affected 61 of the 150 residents at the home over a six week period.
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"metapneumo" -- is that "pneumo about pneumo"? How mutant is that?

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