TORONTO - About 200 infectious disease experts have gathered in Toronto to discuss the H1N1 flu virus that has become a global pandemic.
The meeting is aimed at sharing information from across the country and setting up research collaborations.
Dr. Frank Plummer of the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg says experts need to find out why some people are getting only mild illness from this flu, but others are getting severely ill.
He says a new concern is a different virus that has affected at least two hog farm workers in Saskatchewan.
But Plummer says it is not related to the pandemic H1N1 flu virus that has made thousands of Canadians sick.
Plummer says infectious disease experts need to deal aggressively with the new virus, found in farm workers who experienced mild flu symptoms in June and later recovered.
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