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Re:Recreating the 1918 Flu Virus That Killed 40M People by Vernon092 on Sunday October 19, 2014 @09:35PM (#8480344)
Isn't humanity resistant to this virus now?
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Re:Recreating the 1918 Flu Virus That Killed 40M People by hga on Monday October 20, 2014 @09:16AM (#8481936)
I gather we're not "immunologically immune" to it ... but then again a lot of olders seemed to have greater immunity to it.

Once you get the surface proteins replicated, you can test them against a bank of sera of current people and look for antibody reactions.

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