The H1N1 swine flu virus, seen under a transmission electron microscope (Image: / C S Goldsmith and A Balish)
WELL, it’s happened. A pandemic is looming though it comes not from bird flu in Asia, as we thought it might, but swine flu in Mexico (see “Scientists have warned about swine flu for last decade”). It may yet fizzle out – viruses like this have done before – but no researcher we have spoken to is hopeful.
So what now? Things look bad, but rather than panicking we should use the best science we have to assess the situation. And…
