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Posted Wed Apr 29 2009: from
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Major gaps in knowledge of swine flu, say scientists http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1241012512
Scientists trying to gauge the severity of the threat of a swine influenza pandemic face many important knowledge gaps.... "We don't really know the mortality rate, we don't really know which age groups are affected."...
"We don't know the cause of death, I think that's really important, what are people dying of? Until we have more epidemiological information it's very difficult to make any kind of judgement [about pandemic potential]."... Even the genetic makeup of the virus is under debate. Scientists agree that it is a H1N1 virus -- named because of the types of haemagglutinin and neuraminidase proteins that it possesses. According to some analyses it is made up of an assortment of human, swine and avian influenza genetic material, while the WHO is saying it is made up of largely swine influenza genes.
"By and large when you analyse this virus it is a swine influenza virus," said Fukuda. "I appreciate the difficulty of keeping all of this straight but these are new viruses -- they're new for pigs and they're new for people."
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