La gripe o la influencia de las estrellas / Flu or the influence of the stars

RESUMEN

Se exponen datos relevantes acerca del origen, posible desarrollo y modosde afrontar la epidemia de gripe declarada recientemente. Para ello se describe la naturaleza del virus de la gripe, sus mecanismos de variabilidad,su modo de transmisión intra- e interespecífica, y los retos que presenta eldesarrollo de vacunas protectoras frente al virus causante de la epidemia (AU)

ABSTRACT

Different issues concerning the origin, development, and ways tofight the recent swine flu epidemics are reviewed. These include the nature of the virus and the structure of the virion, its mechanisms of variability, its modes of intra- and interspecific transmision, and the challengesposed by the development of vaccines protecting from the virus variantcausing the epidemics (AU)