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Swine flu goes person-to-pig; could it come back?

(Washington Post) UPDATED 2009-05-03
Researchers say that the H1NI (swine flu) virus has passed back to pigs from a farmworker, and the question is whether it will mutate and come back to humans. If it does, experts say it could change the virus--making it either more deadly or milder. Experts say it is impossible to predict how the virus will change, but they say that swine-to-human virus transmission has happened before, and they urge the public to be cautious but not panicked about the latest flu strain.
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