Comments on: Vaccine against 2009 pandemic flu also protects mice against 1918 strain

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By: Gentle Tiger

Gentle Tiger — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:47:58 +0000

Whose to say that the 2009 flu wasn’t concocted from the 1918 strain?
Maybe that’s why the number of generations apart is so small…
Who watches the watchers?

[Sometimes it's very hard to tell which comments are satire - Ed]

By: Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:28:10 +0000

Because it’s very, very important to work out why the 1918 strain that one was so deadly. That will inform monitoring initiatives and drug/vaccine design.

This is one of the deadliest infections in human history; if it was a historical curiosity, we might be content to leave it well enough alone, but the fact is that flu is a continuing problem and pandemics have cropped up from time to time since 1918, all of which (including last year’s) are direct descendants of the original 1918 strain. You say that it burned itself out – that’s one way of looking at it, but you could equally argue that it set off a pandemic era that has been going strong for 91 years and shows no sign of abating. See here: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/29/from-spanish-to-swine-how-h1n1-kicked-off-a-91-year-pandemic-era/

By: pinsolomons

pinsolomons — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:05:10 +0000

Can’t figure out why scientists went to all the trouble to dig out a deadly strain of flu from frozen corpses that had burned itself out (along with a large percentage of this planet’s population) , revived it and are now keeping it in labs to test vaccines developed for something else on. I’m not a rocket scientist either but I can’t figure the logic in that. Nor for keeping strains of smallpox in labs when it’s supposed to have been wiped off the planetary population by WHO.

By: Lilian Nattel

Lilian Nattel — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:05:54 +0000

A bit scary (the possibility of release) and reassuring as well.

By: Szwagier

Szwagier — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:29:43 +0000

Hmmm, the reference link at the end doesn’t seem to work. Very interesting post, though!

By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:07:52 +0000

This seems to suggest that the space of variations practically available to flu viruses isn’t nearly as large as has been thought.

By: PalMD

PalMD — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:32:28 +0000

Ed, this is so cool…