Discovered the source of pig influenza
June 18, 2009 – 12:00 am 
A new analysis of pig influenza strain H1N1 has shown that the transfer of people has occurred in a few months before the outbreak, we are now witnessing.
In this paper, published on 10 June on the website edition of Nature , the need to continuously track influenza in pigs, and provides evidence that the emergence of new genetic modification in pigs can lead to viruses with a high pandemic potential.
“Using computational methods developed during the last 10 years in Oxford, we were able to reconstruct the origins and development of the current pandemic “, – the author Dr. Oliver Pibus of the department of zoology at Oxford University. According to him, “the results showed that this strain to circulate in pigs (perhaps even on multiple continents) for many years before he was transferred to the people”.
The team of scientists has concluded that despite the systematic tracking of the spread of influenza among humans, the absence of such measures in respect of pigs has allowed this particular potentially deadly strain of the virus to grow and evolve over many years.
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