SPANISH FLU. “Ten vials of virus were created, each containing 10 million infectious virus particles. First they tried infecting mice. All were dead in a matter of days. The experiment was hailed as a “huge breakthrough,” a “tour de force.” “I can’t think of anything bigger that’s happened in virology for many years,” cheered one leading scientist. Not knowing the true identity of the 1918 flu had been “like a dark angel hovering over us.”
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