1918 flu rebuilt to aid bird flu epidemic fight
6th Oct 2005, 13:18 GMT
ATLANTA -- It sounds like a sci-fi thriller. For the first time, scientists have made from scratch the Spanish flu virus that killed millions of people in 1918.Why? To help them understand how to better fend off a future global epidemic from the bird flu spreading in Southeast Asia.
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