Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 07:07 in Health & Medicine

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly -- a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia.

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