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"There is a sigh of relief that the virus hasn't mutated. Fortunately, the swine flu that we're seeing still is a moderate disease that is behaving very much like ordinary seasonal influenza."

—Neil O. Fishman, an infectious-disease specialist at Penn, on how the new strain of swine flu is behaving like a seasonal flu and not the 1918 virus, the world’s deadliest epidemic. (The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2009)