Scientists isolate genes that made 1918 flu lethal
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 08:35
in Health & Medicine
By mixing and matching a contemporary flu virus with the "Spanish flu" — a virus that killed between 20 and 50 million people 90 years ago in history's most devastating outbreak of infectious disease — researchers have identified a set of three genes that helped underpin the extraordinary virulence of the 1918 virus. read more