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  • Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic

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    Reuters: Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly — a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. They mixed samples of the 1918 influenza strain with modern seasonal flu viruses to find the…