{"id":133,"date":"2009-04-06T10:13:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T10:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukejerram.com\/glass\/?page_id=133"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:16:47","slug":"oval-swine-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lukejerram.com\/glass\/gallery\/oval-swine-flu","title":{"rendered":"Swine Flu (oval)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"ngg-galleria-parent nextgen_pro_slideshow\"\n     data-id=\"d60d425ca9088a956199fbc79b93c8d6\"\n     id=\"displayed_gallery_d60d425ca9088a956199fbc79b93c8d6\">\n\t<div class=\"ngg-galleria\"><\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"ngg-galleria-offscreen-seo-wrapper\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lukejerram.com\/glass\/wp-content\/gallery\/oval-swine-flu\/Lukejerramforweb1_0003.jpg\"\n               title=\"\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/www.lukejerram.com\/glass\/wp-content\/gallery\/oval-swine-flu\/Lukejerramforweb1_0003.jpg\"\n               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First described in April 2009, the virus appeared to be a new strain of H1N1 which resulted when a previous triple reassortment of bird, swine and human flu viruses further combined with a Eurasian pig flu virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with the Wellcome Collection Jerram said.. &#8220;<em>At the beginning of the outbreak I was diagnosed with swine flu. It was strange designing the sculpture with a fever whilst swallowing my Tamiflu tablets every few hours.&nbsp; I remember there was a lot of speculation in the media whether the virus could wipe out a third of the global population.&nbsp; There was lots of different scientific imagery and diagrams flying around in the media. The reason I made the Swine Flu sculpture is because people care about it. What I\u2019m doing is providing an alternative representation of the virus for the public to consider.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009, The Mori Museum, Tokyo exhibited this Swine Flu sculpture in an exhibition called <em>Medicine and Art<\/em>, with works from Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol,&nbsp;Marc Quinn and Leonardo da Vinci.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Museum Collections<\/strong><br>Museum of Glass, Shanghai<br>Wellcome Collection, London<br>(With thanks to the Wellcome Colection for use of the imagery above)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Works Available for Sale<\/strong><br>Made as an edition of 5<br>Swine Flu (small) 16 x 11cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukejerram.com\/glass\/sales\">Go to Sales page\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 flu pandemic was an outbreak of a new strain of H1N1 influenza virus, usually referred to as &#8220;swine flu&#8220;. 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