Scientists isolate genes that made 1918 flu lethal

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 09:24 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...

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