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Nature 444, 1007-1008 (21 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/4441007a; Published online 21 December 2006

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John Oxford1

BOOK REVIEWEDBird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching

by Michael Greger

Lantern Books: 2006. 416 pp. $30, £21.99

I am often kicked around by American authors in books about influenza. How dare a Limey suggest that the Spanish influenza A H1N1 virus arose in a gas-infected, pig-ridden and bird-infected army camp of 100,000 people in France in 1916, when the whole world knows it started in Dorothy's home state, Kansas?