New flu virus infects two U.S. children, CDC reports
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Two U.S. children were infected with a previously unknown flu virus that apparently formed when a pig influenza virus picked up a gene from the strain that caused the swine flu pandemic in 2009, federal health officials reported Friday.
Both of the children recovered, however, and there is no evidence that the virus is spreading easily among people, meaning that it does not appear to pose a threat of becoming a significant public health concern, officials said.
"We want people to be aware of these things and we want physicians to be aware," said Lyn Finelli, chief of surveillance and response at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Influenza Division. "But we don't think that these cases in themselves are alarming."
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