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Is a new strain of H3N2 swine flu a danger to public health or just to the reputations of public health experts
A new variant of an influenza virus that circulates in pigs has been jumping occasionally into people, providing a surprisingly early opportunity for public health officials to test out some of the lessons learned from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
New Flu Strain Makes Health Experts Nervous
Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2011 8:18 AM EST
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Since the virus was first spotted in July, there have been 10 cases, all but one of which were children under the age of 10. (The exception was a 58-year-old.) All the cases have been in the U.S.; there have been no reports of this virus in people or pigs anywhere else
The most recent infections, in three young children in Iowa, almost certainly involved person-to-person spread. The Iowa cluster is likely larger—no one in the first child’s family had exposure to pigs, suggesting an unidentified person was the source of virus.
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