Thursday, 30 April 2009 The disease’s journey appears to have
started in a tiny village in Mexico called La Gloria. A
combination of one strain of avian flu, one strain of human flu
and two strains of swine flu, it moved quickly, killing dozens
of people in Mexico at the date of writing. Transference of the
disease appears to be totally from human to human in this case,
creating a the curious situation of a global health emergency
that appears to have come from nowhere in particular. And now,
it seems, it is getting practically everywhere. New cases are
springing up daily, and while thankfully most people are
responding well to treatment, this is a very worrying disease.
It is not just the form it is taking now that we need to worry
about; it is the form it might develop over the next few months.
Influenza itself is a very unpredictable disease, and this
mutation of it is no different. However, regardless of
appearances, something has to have started this modern day
plague. Pigs have suffered from swine flu f