Understanding the course of the emerging pandemic virus is important.
THE Suharto clan infected Indonesian business like a pandemic virus.
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Recovered individuals are assumed to have acquired full immunity to the circulating pandemic virus.
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But seasonal flu was driven out last winter by the "novel H1N1 pandemic" virus.
Genetic diversity of influenza A(H1N1 2009 viruses has been reported since the pandemic virus emerged in April 2009.
The detection of a potential pandemic virus needs scientific boots on the ground for surveillance, but what happens if they spot something they think is dangerous?
The assembly cited "serious risk to human health, including the possible emergence of a pandemic virus, arising from ongoing outbreaks in poultry of highly pathogenic avian influenza".
"As we see today, with well over 100 countries reporting cases, once a fully fit pandemic virus emerges, its further international spread is unstoppable," she said.
