Moscow, November 11 (Interfax) - Russian medical specialists are of the view that the A(H1N1) virus has not undergone significant genetic mutations and has not acquired new malignant properties Gennady Onishchenko the chief public health official and head of the consumer and health protection watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said.
"We have been concerned about the virus’s mutability from the very start. The worst concerns that it might be changing have not come true so far. Fortunately, it has not mutated in a way that we could say that it has become more aggressive," Onishchenko said.
The studies of the H1N1 virus in the Russians who have contracted it or died from complications have shown that the virus "does not have any unique mutations," he said.
"The grave cases of the disease were caused not by the virus’s properties but by the properties of the organisms that it affected," he said.
