title: Influenza A: a threatening virus with two faces.
abstract: 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?
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Retroscreen Virology, London, UK.
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Oxford
mesh_terms: 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