Environmentalist: "New Thinking Needed on New Diseases"
163 views · Published 3 November 2009 · 2:48 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · News & Politics
The World Health Organization says that since April nearly 5,000 people around the world have died from the H1N1 virus, mostly in the Western Hemisphere. Doctors initially called the virus swine flu because it contained genetic material found in pig influenza, but researchers are now re-thinking not just the names of these viruses, but the way they look at them, too. VOA's Carol Pearson has more.
