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World Notes: Public health implications of H1N1 virus mutation found in Norway Comments Off on World Notes: Public health implications of H1N1 virus mutation found in Norway

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health reported finding a mutated H1N1 virus in three patients, including the first two H1N1 fatalities in Norway. The H1N1 virus mutation does not appear to be circulating and may have spontaneously arisen in the three patients. “The mutation, known as D222G (also as D225G), reportedly allows the virus to […]