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To fight the next major pandemic, flu hunters turn to these animals

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Have Americans forgotten the history of this deadly flu?

Author Kenneth C. Davis examines another deadly effect of World War I: the spread of the Spanish flu.

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90 Years Later, 1918 Flu Lives on in Antibodies, Research

Ninety years after the 1918 flu pandemic claimed the last of its approximately 50 million victims, antibodies to the virus live on in people exposed to it as children -- and the pandemic itself is still inspiring research and debate…

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