11-04-2005, 05:50 PM
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Mr. Genius
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Shanghai, China
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Scientists replicate deadly 1918 flu virus
Scientists replicate deadly 1918 flu virus
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WASHINGTON, Oct 5, 2005 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Scientists for the first time have reconstructed the 1918 Spanish influenza virus strain that caused the deadliest flu outbreak in history in an attempt to ward off another worldwide pandemic.
The Spanish flu outbreak killed as many as 50 million people at the time, and disease experts think another global flu pandemic is inevitable and due to emerge soon. Currently, public health officials are focusing their attention on a strain of avian flu spreading in Asia and Russia, because it appears to be very lethal to people, killing about 50 percent of those it infects.
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