Influenza A: a threatening virus with two faces.
In 1918, a great 'forgotten plague' wiped out fifty million people around the world - many of them young and healthy. The killer disease was flu. What was it that made this outbreak so deadly and would we be prepared if another pandemic struck?
Oxford
John S
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Department of Medical Microbiology, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Retroscreen Virology, London, UK.
D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D009980:Influenza A virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality