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The 2009 swine flu virus faces two probable fates: it will either continue to cause low or moderate mortality or it will go extinct. That’s the judgment of the authors of a new Perspectives piece in mBio, which points out that the impact of the virus this flu season will depend largely on the degree of immunity in the population, and since the virus was quick to spread last year and H1N1 vaccines have been effective, population immunity is high.
Read more on mBio’s blog, mBiosphere…