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Spanish Flu Killed 50 Million. Terrorists Can Now Create Synthetic Version of the Virus.
A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu ...
Unprepared for a pandemic
Scientists say the risk H5N1 will trigger a pandemic remains low. But if the bird flu virus infects a person who's already ...
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What Covid tried to teach us — and why it will matter in the next pandemic
Still, the demand for pandemic flu vaccine will exceed the amount made for ... There is anecdotal evidence that such measures ...
Why cats are the new pigs – and could spark the next pandemic
Scientists say that, like pigs, they are a ‘mixing vessel’ that could enable H5N1 bird flu to mutate and spread to humans ...
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Prepare now to use convalescent plasma for the next pandemic
Convalescent blood products have been used successfully before, such as in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. For CP and other forms of passive immunity therapies to be effective, a few key principles ...
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How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...