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Swine flu attention turns to the tropics

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New flu strains are more likely to arise in equatorial countries, where influenza is present the year round and surveillance is poor.

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Butler, D. Swine flu attention turns to the tropics. Nature 459, 490–491 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/459490a

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