1918 Flu epidemic
Interesting report in the
BBC regarding an article published recently in Science on the 1918 Flu.
bq.
1918 killer flu secrets revealed
Scientists have worked out how the virus which caused the world's worst flu epidemic infected man.
bq. They believe the virus, which claimed the lives of up to 50m people around the world, jumped from birds to humans.
bq. The breakthrough, published in Science, should help doctors identify which future bird viruses pose a threat to man at an earlier stage.
There have been a number of books written about this epidemic which killed 50 million people in less than one year. Fascinating and scary stuff...
Posted by DaveH at February 10, 2004 9:11 PM