Flu may not have killed most in 1918 pandemic

Friday, February 6, 2009 - 09:49 in Health & Medicine

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Strep infections and not the flu virus itself may have killed most people during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which suggests some of the most dire predictions about a new pandemic may be exaggerated, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

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