The modern flu is a direct descendant of the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic - Inverse


5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 11 months ago
by Katie MacBride

How the Covid-19 pandemic can help us better understand the 1918 flu pandemic and future pandemics.

The seasonal flu may be a direct descendant of the 1918 pandemic and not the result of multiple viruses combining, new research shows. Just as the human genome over millennia can tell us crucial i… [+6434 chars]

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