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Emeritus
[Source: Nature, full text: (LINK). Extract, edited.]
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Epidemiology: Racing against the flu
Duncan Graham-Rowe
Journal name: Nature
Volume: 480, Pages: S2?S3
Date published: (08 December 2011)
DOI: doi:10.1038/480S2a
Published online 07 December 2011
Influenza mutates fast and spreads easily, earning a place among humanity's biggest killers.
Influenza kills more than 250,000 people each year, worldwide. And with new strains ever emerging, there is always the threat of a repeat of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which claimed more than 50 million lives. Indeed, despite vaccines and antiviral drugs that offer some protection to the vulnerable, nearly a century after that catastrophe we still seem no closer to being able to predict and ultimately stave off such a virulent outbreak.
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-Duncan Graham-Rowe
Journal name: Nature
Volume: 480, Pages: S2?S3
Date published: (08 December 2011)
DOI: doi:10.1038/480S2a
Published online 07 December 2011
Influenza mutates fast and spreads easily, earning a place among humanity's biggest killers.
Influenza kills more than 250,000 people each year, worldwide. And with new strains ever emerging, there is always the threat of a repeat of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which claimed more than 50 million lives. Indeed, despite vaccines and antiviral drugs that offer some protection to the vulnerable, nearly a century after that catastrophe we still seem no closer to being able to predict and ultimately stave off such a virulent outbreak.
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