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2 Mar 2013 22:40

Whatever happened to the flu pandemic? In 2009, a new flu strain swept across the world. The new strain, called H1N1, emerged from pigs and jumped over to humans sometime in late 2008, and then swept through the human population starting in the spring of 2009. Panic ensued. Egypt responded by slaughtering all of its pigs, about 300,000.
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