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Spanish flu
Analysis of the hemagglutinin gene of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus suggests that a recombination event created the deadly strain.
Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010910-01
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The Spanish influenza virus pandemic of 1918 killed more than 20 million people worldwide. In September 7 Science, Mark Gibbs and colleagues from the Australian National University in Canberra propose that the pandemic was the result of a recombination between swine-lineage and human-lineage viral strains (Science 2001, 293:1842-1845).
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