The last major swine flu outbreak was in 1976. Where has swine flu been since then?
In swine. But the question is misleading, since the current swine flu is not the same swine flu that broke out 30 years ago. Yes, their structure is similar—they’re both H1N1—but they are different viruses. What we currently call “swine flu” probably originated after 1976 and only recently became capable of transmission from pig to human and human to human.
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