FLASHBACK 2018: Taubenberger’s discovery raised the terrifying possibility that, in the future, some other avian influenza virus – like the H5N1 bird flu then circulating in south-east Asia or the H7N9 flu currently causing sporadic human infections in China – might suddenly acquire the ability to trigger a similarly devastating pandemic. It also begged the question, why bring the Spanish flu back to life, and what if the virus escaped the laboratory and fell into the hands of terrorists?
101 YEARS LATER: THE SAME FLU VIRUS THAT CAUSED THE 1918 PANDEMIC RETURNS IN 2019!
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