‘Don’t panic but stay alert’. That is the advice from a top London scientist after the first confirmed human case of a new strain of swine flu in the UK.
The virus was only spotted when a patient in North Yorkshire went to their GP, after experiencing respiratory symptoms.
Dr Andrew Catchpole, chief scientific officer at infectious disease testing firm hVIVO, said that public health authorities would only be concerned if they discovered “sustained human to human transmission” of the virus.
hVIVO plc (formerly Open Orphan plc) is a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and the world leader in testing infectious and respiratory disease vaccines and antivirals using human challenge clinical trials, providing end-to-end early clinical development services for its broad and long-standing client base of biopharma companies.