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Was the 1918 pandemic caused by a bird flu? Was the 1918 flu avian in origin? (Reply)

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  • Jeffery K. Taubenberger

    (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)

  • Ann H. Reid

    (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
    Board on Life Sciences, The National Academies)

  • Raina M. Lourens

    (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
    Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa)

  • Ruixue Wang

    (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)

  • Guozhong Jin

    (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)

  • Thomas G. Fanning

    (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)

Abstract

We have proposed that the virus responsible for the 1918 human influenza pandemic was avian-like, which to us is a reasonable interpretation of all the available data from phylogenetic, sequence, serological and historical analysis, combined with what is known of influenza A virus biology1,2,3,4. However, Gibbs and Gibbs 5 and Antonovics et al .6 question our inferred origin of the 1918 influenza virus.

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  • Jeffery K. Taubenberger & Ann H. Reid & Raina M. Lourens & Ruixue Wang & Guozhong Jin & Thomas G. Fanning, 2006. "Was the 1918 pandemic caused by a bird flu? Was the 1918 flu avian in origin? (Reply)," Nature, Nature, vol. 440(7088), pages 9-10, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:440:y:2006:i:7088:d:10.1038_nature04825
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04825
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