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  • Specialist denies risk of epidemic for mutations in virus A (H1N1)

    Mexico, 5 Feb. (Notimex) .-The virus of the influenza A (H1N1) has had minimal changes in his genetic composition, which do not seem to give him aptitude to provoke a big epidemic at present, there indicated the investigator of the UNAM, Malaqu?as L?pez.

    He emphasized that only the biggest mutations affect the immune response, from what the immunity acquired thanks to the vaccine or for having endured the illness in the past he will avoid the contagion or a severe picture.

    The vaccine that is applied to the population is composed by the viruses A (H1N1), To (H3N2), and influenza B, y the one that will be distributed at the end of this year will include the above-mentioned mutations, there exhibited the expert of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

    He told that at present the illness behaves in accordance with the awaited thing, in addition to which the conditions of the population are radically different from those from 2009; ' then A (H1N1) was completely new and we all were capable of being contagious '.

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