Mount Sinai Researchers Study Most Lethal Flu Virus
http://www.msnyuhealth.org/articles/flu.html
Adolfo Garc?-Sastre, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, along with researchers from three other laboratories, has successfully recovered an influenza virus containing one of the genes from the virus responsible for the devastating influenza of 1918, known as the Spanish Flu.
Spanish Flu Virus Reconstructed by US
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/10/273114.shtml
Lethal Virus from 1918 Genetically Reconstructed US Army scientists create \"Spanish Flu\" virus in laboratory - medical benefit questionable
Bird Virus Tied to 1918 Flu Pandemic
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By Randy Dotinga, HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDayNews) -- If new research on the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is to be believed, scientists in Asia have good reason to worry about the avian flu that has spread to humans there in recent months.
The Spanish virus killed more people than World War I, and researchers now suggest it may have started in birds.
According to two studies released in this week\'s issue of Science, there\'s not much difference between the 1918 flu strain and an avian virus. The similarities, in fact, may have made it harder for humans to fight off the virus by fooling their immune systems into thinking the germs were harmless.
Disastrous 1918 Flu Linked to Birds, Study Says
Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
February 5, 2004
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/0205_040205_spanishflu.html
Solving an 86-year-old medical mystery, British scientists have determined the structure of the so-called \"Spanish flu\" virus that jumped from birds to humans in 1918, killing more than 20 million people worldwide.
In two separate studies, researchers from the Medical Research Council in London showed that the virus likely derived from an avian virus and retained some key characteristics of its avian precursor that caught the human immune system off-guard.
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