Login
Thu 26 Nov 2009 | 01:01 EST
You are here:Home > News > Blogs > Global News Journal > Article
Home
Business & Finance
News
U.S.
Politics
International
Technology
Entertainment
Sports
Lifestyle
Oddly Enough
Health
Science
Special Coverage
Video
Pictures
Your View
The Great Debate
Blogs
Reader Feedback
Do More With Reuters
RSSRSS Feed
Mobile
Podcasts
Newsletters
You Witness News
Partner Services
CareerBuilder
Affiliate Network
Professional Products
Support (Customer Zone)
Reuters Media
Financial Products
Find a financial adviser
About Reuters

Reuters Blogs

Global News Journal

Beyond the World news headlines

« Previous Post
Next Post »
23:34 July 13th, 2009

So pigs are to blame after all!

Post a comment (1)
Posted by: Maggie Fox
Tags: General, Global News, , , ,

And those pesky promiscuous viruses. More insight into the 1918 pandemic - the kind everyone fears may happen again - shows it circulated for a little while before it got bad. And as Tan Ee Lyn reports from Hong Kong, it was a swine flu as well:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56C64720090713

Comments RSS

One comment so far

July 14th, 2009
12:52 pm GMT

Are you sure it’s not the humans who are to blame? “…the Spanish flu of 1918-1919 circulated in swine and humans well before the pandemic started…”

- Posted by Peter H

Post Your Comment

*
To prove you're a person (not a spam script), type the security word shown in the picture. Click on the picture to hear an audio file of the word.
Click to hear an audio file of the anti-spam word

House Rules:
  • We moderate all comments and will publish everything that advances the post directly or with relevant tangential information
  • We try not to publish comments that we think are offensive or appear to pass you off as another person, and we will be conservative if comments may be considered libelous information.