Flu Researchers Train Sights On Novel Tricks of Novel H1N1

摘要

Shortly after receiving word on 23 April that the same odd strain of swine influenza had infected humans in both the United States and Mexico, researchers around the world pounced on this novel H1N1 virus. "I've never seen so many people mobilized for something like this so quickly," says molecular virologist Elodie Ghedin, who specializes in influenza genomics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania. Indeed, several journals,rnincluding Science, have already published papers about the outbreak.rnIn contrast to the regimented organization of the public health effort, the research community has a free-for-all spirit, more Wikipedia than Encyclopedia Britannica. Questions include: Where does this virus come from, how does it do its dirty work, where is it heading, and how do we combat it?