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...structures. During normal years, the scientists concoct the recipe that the World Health Organization (WHO) uses for seasonal-flu vaccines. But in a pandemic year, they become sentinels looking for any changes in the virus that could alter the course of the pandemic. (Read: "Five No-Nos for the Swine Flu Frenzy...
...back to the lab, and as soon as we saw a sequence of the hemagglutinin, we looked at the receptor binding site and found indications of an alpha-2,6 binding specificity," Daniels, 54, recalls. "I knew then - we have a problem." (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...make educated guesses about how lethal and contagious a pandemic will be. But they are only guesses. While exhaustive, 21st century virology can explain and illustrate what's already happened - and help health officials react - the only valid, real-time laboratory is the human population itself. (See pictures of swine flu hitting Mexico...
...paranoia. A man in his late 60s is driving, anxiously checking his mirrors and talking about the people he's sure are pursuing him. He's wearing a surgical mask and gives the impression of Jason Bourne as a possibly batty senior citizen, still dodging bad guys and, maybe, swine...
...living through a pandemic right now, but we don't yet know if the H1N1/09 virus--the new official name for what was first called swine flu--will sear the history books or merely strike us a glancing blow. In just a few months, H1N1/09 has spread to nearly every country in the world, infecting so many people that the World Health Organization has officially stopped counting. In nations where it is already winter, like Argentina, H1N1/09 has caused billions of dollars in damage, and China is quarantining foreigners suspected to have the flu. In the U.S., the virus...