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Nature 445, 237 (18 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/445237a; Published online 17 January 2007

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Concern as revived 1918 flu virus kills monkeys

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Questions raised over safety of revived microbe.

The 1918 influenza virus, which killed some 50 million people worldwide, has proved fatal to macaques infected in a laboratory. The study follows Nature's controversial publication1 of the virus's sequence in 2005, alongside a paper in Science that described the recreation of the virus from a corpse and its potency in mice2.

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