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Published online 4 March 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news990304-5

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Spanish 'flu keeps its secrets

Frozen tissue from a victim of the worldwide influenza pandemic of 1918 who was buried in the Alaskan permafrost is helping to piece together the genome of a virus that caused one of the most devastating outbreaks of epidemic disease in modern times. In Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences [16 February, 1999], Ann H.

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