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Even though health officials are calling this new virus H1N1, that's also the type of virus that's in wide circulation today. And it has an interesting history. It was the dominant flu virus through the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Oxford says it disappeared in 1957, when it was displaced by another flu virus. But then a strain of H1N1 suddenly reappeared in 1977."Now where could it have come from?" he asks. "We reckon now, in retrospect, it was probably released accidentally from a laboratory, probably in northern China or just across the border in Russia, because everyone was experimenting with those viruses at the time in the lab."
It was nothing malicious, Oxford believes, just some flu vaccine research that broke out of containment. The descendents of this virus are still circulating.
Na dann ist ja gut. Kann ja mal passieren, wenn man mit tödlichen Viren arbeitet. Die Punchline an seinen Ausführungen ist, dass wir heute von der Schweinegrippe nicht so betroffen sind, weil wir alle noch Resistenzen aus den 70ies haben, weil dieser Prototyp aus dem Labor ausbrach. Die russischen und chinesischen Biowaffenbauer, äh, Immunologieforscher haben uns gerettet!!1!