Editorial
Open questions about influenza A (H1N1) 2009
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Correspondence: Miranda Robertson editorial@jbiol.com
Journal of Biology 2009, 8:68 doi:10.1186/jbiol182
Published: 2 October 2009First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
When influenza A (H1N1) 2009 first started to spread on a pandemic scale earlier this year, we asked Peter Doherty and Stephen Turner to write a Question-and-Answer piece for us on the virus and the means to combat it [1]. Now, with the return to school of children at the start of the Northern Hemisphere autumn and the expected new wave of infections, we have published a follow-up Q&A [2] on what we have learned about the virus since the last article, and the likelihood of an increase in the severity of the disease in the second wave of infections. For this, Doherty and Turner have recruited the help of colleagues Lorena Brown at Melbourne University and Anne Kelso at the WHO Collaborating Centre For Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne to deliver a quick overview of what is known, and their best guesses about the practical implications.