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Branswell: Ground more fertile for next pandemic

Posted on September 15, 2008

Helen Branswell has published two important articles today. Here's the second one, from C-Health: Expert says ground is more fertile for next pandemic, 90 years after Spanish flu. Excerpt:Could it really happen again?Influenza scientists repeat like a mantra that when it comes to flu pandemics, the question is not if, but when. And yet 90 years after the worst one - the Spanish flu of 1918-19 - and 40 years after the most recent one, it's tempting to wonder why there hasn't been a pandemic since the Hong Kong flu of 1968.With the current state of influenza knowledge, there is no satisfying ans...

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