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Century-old pair of lungs stored in jar reveals how 1918 Spanish flu pandemic began

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...
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A Century-Old Lung in a Jar Yields Clues to the Spanish Flu’s Lethal Surge

In a glass jar at the University of Zurich, a lung has been sitting in silence for more than a hundred years. Preserved in formalin, the organ belonged to an 18-year-old Swiss man who died during the ...
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Have you had your flu shot? History of the Spanish flu of 1918 shows us the answer should be yes.

Have you had your flu shot yet? If not, history suggests it might be a good idea. That’s because today we think back to Sept. 16, 1918, when doctors at the Navy base reported the first documented case ...