Shalom All:

Killer flu recreated in the lab
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3719990.stm

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Scientists believe the 1918 virus leapt to humans by mutating from bird flu,
possibly after passing through pigs, which are able to harbour both human and
avian viruses and thus allow them to swap genes as the viruses reproduce.

The virus killed more people than any other single outbreak of disease,
surpassing even the Black Death of the Middle Ages.

It is thought that the virus may have played a role in ending World War I as
soldiers were too sick to fight, and by that stage more men on both sides
died of flu than were killed by weapons.
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