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Experts were wrong in thinking that a pandemic caused by a previously dormant swine flu could not occur before the 2009 pandemic, an international flu expert admitted.
Until the swine flu (H1N1) outbreak two years ago, it was widely believed that the next pandemic would be a "novel subtype" of flu, said professor Malik Peiris, scientific director of HKU- Pasteur Research Centre and chair professor of the microbiology department.
"People thought that you cannot have a pandemic caused by an H1 or an H3 virus, but of course we were wrong in that," he told a two-day Voice of America disaster preparedness and influenza workshop for journalists in Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland, which ended yesterday.
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Until the swine flu (H1N1) outbreak two years ago, it was widely believed that the next pandemic would be a "novel subtype" of flu, said professor Malik Peiris, scientific director of HKU- Pasteur Research Centre and chair professor of the microbiology department.
"People thought that you cannot have a pandemic caused by an H1 or an H3 virus, but of course we were wrong in that," he told a two-day Voice of America disaster preparedness and influenza workshop for journalists in Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland, which ended yesterday.
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http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=115381&sid=33790318&con_type=1