Scientists Find Exposure to Earlier Flu Viruses Provides Many with Natural Immunity to H1N1

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Posted on 2nd November 2009 by admin in Health Alerts

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(NaturalNews) Despite all the panic and hype about the H1N1 pandemic and the rush to immunize people in droves against the virus, the fact is — so far — the outbreak has been fairly mild. Now University of California (UC) Davis, researchers studying H1N1, formerly referred to as “swine flu,” have identified a group of immunologically important sites called epitopes in the virus that are also present in seasonal flu viruses, which have been circulating for untold years. So what does this mean? If you were exposed to the earlier influenza viruses, you probably already have some level of immunity to H1N1.

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