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

Jeffery K. Taubenberger (), Ann H. Reid, Raina M. Lourens, Ruixue Wang, Guozhong Jin and Thomas G. Fanning
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Jeffery K. Taubenberger: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Ann H. Reid: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Raina M. Lourens: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Ruixue Wang: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Guozhong Jin: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Thomas G. Fanning: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7088, E9-E10

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2006
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