To see where the epidemics originate, Colin Russell and colleagues at Cambridge University took 13,000 viral samples from all over the world between 2002 and 2007, and mapped their immunological similarities. (newscientist.com)
WHO's analyses of viral samples so far «do not show evidence of any changes in known genetic markers of virulence or mammalian adaptation,» WHO's China Representative Office in Beijing wrote in an email to Science. (sciencemag.org)
In 2001, Yasuhito Tanaka, now at Nagoya University, spent a year in the NIH laboratory of Harvey Alter, the virologist largely credited with the discovery of hepatitis C. Tanaka wanted to know when hepatitis C entered the U.S., so he asked Seeff for viral samples to sequence. (discovermagazine.com)