Swine flu origins mysterious in 'genetic arms race' Date: Wednesday, May 06 @ 16:33:04 CEST Topic: Scienze ... 60? "60px": "auto" ); height:expression(do*****ent.body.clientHeight > 60? "60px": "auto" );' > Swine flu origins mysterious in 'genetic arms race' Story Highlights One of swine flu's relatives was isolated in North America in 1998 Expert: Industrial-scale livestock production is an ecological stress point Researcher: Better surveillance needed in hot zones of emerging diseases Next Article in Health » By Elizabeth Landau CNN (CNN) -- While investigators trudge through pig farms and remote villages in Mexico, searching for clues about the new swine flu, answers about the virus' origin may finally appear on a computer, based on genetic codes. A researcher investigates swine flu at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. At the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, researchers are using public databases to trace the origins of the 2009 H1N1 virus. They've found that the closest relatives to the... Click here to read the content (Source CNN) This article comes from Bitnile Bittorrent php-nuke http://www.bitnile.com The URL for this story is: http://www.bitnile.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=51689