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Why has swine flu emerged in a person in the UK — and what’s next?

Scientists are closely monitoring a virus that has been detected for the first time in a UK individual.
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  1. Katharine Sanderson

    1. Katharine Sanderson is a reporter for Nature in London.

Scientists are working to better understand a type of swine flu that was detected in a person in the United Kingdom for the first time. Swine flu typically circulates in pigs but caused a human pandemic in 2009 that killed an estimated 284,000 people.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03774-0

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