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Nature 429, 345-346 (27 May 2004) | doi:10.1038/429345a

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The 1918 flu pandemic killed 50 million people — and it could happen again.

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the 1918 Pandemic

by John M. Barry


Viking: 2004. 546 pp. $29.95

In the modern world where a newly discovered virus has been called sin nombre, or 'nameless', to avoid pinpointing a geographical origin, a strange paradox has arisen — several nations are claiming Spanish influenza as their own. But virologists are all agreed on one thing: the virus did not emerge in Spain.

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