Nature Medicine 11, 1154 - 1156 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nm1105-1154
Extinct 1918 virus comes aliveRobert A Lamb
& David Jackson
The authors are in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3500, USA. ralamb@northwestern.edu
The 1918 'Spanish' flu that killed 20–50 million people has been recreated from its gene sequence. The virus truly is a nasty beast.
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