Genes That Made 1918 Flu Lethal Isolated
Monday, December 29, 2008 - 21:35
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.