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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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 ... More »

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