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Bird-flu relative rises from the ashes

This content was published on Oct 6, 2005 Two American research groups announced this week that they had been able to reconstitute from tissue samples the virus that killed millions worldwide in 1918. Wunderli, who is head of Switzerland’s national influenza centre, said the two teams’ groundbreaking work could prove vital in the near future. Research on the Spanish flu virus is not…