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Nature 445, 237 (18 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/445237a; Published online 17 January 2007
Concern as revived 1918 flu virus kills monkeys
Kerri Smith
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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