Stock up or suffer - The Times 18th October 2007

Avian flu crossed the species barrier in 1918 and millions died. We should take careful note Next year is the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War, and doctors are still investigating the outbreak of influenza that followed it. The 1918 world pandemic had started two years earlier, when avian flu mutated and crossed the species barrier, making the virus capable of ready transmission from person to person. It initially spread among recuperating soldiers.

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