NIH Scientists Consider Fate of Pandemic H1N1 Flu Virus

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NIH Scientists Consider Fate of Pandemic H1N1 Flu Virus

In the year and a half since the emergence of the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, about 60 percent of the U.S. population has gained immunity to it. Can the virus that caused a pandemic continue to survive in the face of such high levels of immunity? That’s one question considered by NIAID scientists in a new commentary in the journal mBio.

The authors are cautiously optimistic that pandemic H1N1 virus will follow a path like that of the virus that caused the 1968 influenza pandemic, that is, it will persist in the population but cause relatively few deaths in years to come.

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NIH Scientists Consider Fate of Pandemic H1N1 Flu Virus