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#636: April 27, 2009

Knowledge Fight

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The Virus Could Be Made in a Lab

Scientists who have studied the virus widely reject this conclusion for a number of reasons. Pigs or people can be infected with multiple flues simultaneously, and then they can re combine in ways where they trade genetic information. There's no reason to believe that just because the two thousand nine h one n one virus had elements of swine, avian and human flues in it, that that means that it had to be made in a lab.

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