The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first complete influenza A genome with a precise date from Europe. It offers new insights into the deadly pandemic that claimed the lives of up to 100 million people. Continue Reading Category:Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind Tags:University of Basel, Influenza, pandemic, Virus, RNA, Evolution
