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Eric Cardinale1, Hervé Pascalis, Sarah Temmam
1Le Centre de Recherche et de Veille sur les Maladies Emergentes dans l’Océan Indien, Sainte-Clotilde, Ile de la Réunion, France. eric.cardinale@cirad.fr
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|September 29, 2012
Abstract:
During 2009, pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus affected humans on Réunion Island. Since then, the virus has sustained circulation among local swine herds, raising concerns about the potential for genetic evolution of the virus and possible retransmission back to humans of variants with increased virulence. Continuous surveillance of A(H1N1)pdm09 infection in pigs is recommended.
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