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30 Jul 2014:GrrlScientist: The Great War helped create the influenza pandemic of 1918, which eventually brought an early end to the Great War
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2 Jul 2014: Laura Murphy: One hundred years ago, the KKK accused migrants of spreading disease. Fox News picked up where they left off
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Poll,
12 Jun 2014:
US researchers have defended their decision to create a virus similar to the 1918 Spanish flu strain that killed about 50 million people. Are they right to have done so?
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11 Jun 2014:
Researchers say recreation of Spanish flu strain highlights risk of pandemic, but critics say work puts global population at risk
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10 Jun 2014: Jeremy Farrar: Our surveillance of outbreaks has improved, but excessive bureaucracy means we're not saving as many lives as we might
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10 Apr 2014:
Spending more on stockpile of controversial anti-flu drugs that has already cost over £500m verges on the reckless, says MP
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10 Apr 2014:
Britain stockpiled drugs for predicted bird flu in 2005 and swine flu in 2009 that independent scientists say are no cure
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31 Mar 2014:
Call for radical overhaul of system to allow emergency trials to launch within 24 hours of an epidemic emerging
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30 Jan 2014:
Open thread: America's National Institutes of Health needs people for their research. It pays, but requires days of quarantine – and the flu
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2 Jan 2014:
Changes to NHS mean country will be unable to cope with major outbreak of disease, possibly leading to thousands of deaths
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Video,
5 Jun 2013:
Sometimes, it can be hard for health agencies to see national patterns in flu viruses, let alone international ones. Google Flu Trends is an attempt to make that data available in real-time using flu-related search queries.
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28 Feb 2013:
Dylan Walsh: State-wide flu emergencies in the US may have been caused by last year's unusually warm winter
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14 Feb 2013: Mark Honigsbaum: We have become very good at detecting risk, but it's impossible to know if this latest virus will be another Sars or disappear
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15 Jan 2013:
Emma Brockes: When even celebrities like Meryl Streep are not immune, it's time to get a flu shot. But regular vaccines are running short
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13 Dec 2012:
Academic group has warned of 'substantial problems' with trials of the drug stockpiled by governments around the world in 2009
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