1.0 link 195349 <![CDATA[Swine Flu 1999: We Were Warned]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/swine-flu-1999-we-were-wa_b_195349.html In researching my upcoming book on factory farming for St. Martins Press, I have come across many warnings from our past about the looming threat of pandemic influenza emerging from large-scale hog operations.

It now appears that six of the eight genetic components in the currently circulating virus are direct descendants of a swine flu virus that first emerged in North Carolina a decade ago. That bug was discovered in August 1998, at a 2,400-head breeding facility in Newton...

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