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Science 4 March 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5714, p. 1392
DOI: 10.1126/science.307.5714.1392
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Experts Dismiss Pig Flu Scare as Nonsense

Martin Enserink

For 4 months now, a series of strange influenza sequences has been sitting in GenBank, the U.S. National Institutes of Health's DNA database, that seems to suggest that pigs in South Korea have become infected with a flu strain used for research in labs around the world but not known to occur in nature.

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