The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus used a new strategy to cross from birds into humans, a warning that it has more than one trick up its sleeve to jump the species barrier. In a report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, researchers show that the H1N1 virus adopted a new mutation in one of its genes distinct from the mutations found in previous flu viruses.

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