linkedin post 2013-11-10 05:54:16

RESURRECTION OF 1918 FLU, a lethal pandemic which killed the equivalent of the current UK population, and three times the number killed in WWI. “Scientists in the US say they have recreated the influenza virus that killed at least 50 million people in 1918, and they have infected mice with it.” They reconstructed it from DNA in hospital samples and from a victim in Alaskan permafrost. Critical insights to bird flu were obtained. ”
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8103-us-scientists-resurrect-deadly-1918-flu.html

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