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Article: The dysox model of respiratory viral infections the lessons of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.(Oxygen Homeostasis)
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- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Will there be an other catastrophic bird flu pandemic? Yes. Will that pandemic match the killing capacity of the 1918 Spanish flu--100 million or more people killed worldwide? Possibly. Will such an apocalypse occur in the next few decades? That's anyone's guess.
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What can the 1918 Spanish bird flu teach us about viruses? What can it teach us about coping with seasonal flu epidemics that kill 35,000 to 45,000 Americans every year? What can it teach about other acute and chronic respiratory viral infections? What are some of the recent advances in our understanding of molecular mechanisms by which viruses cause disease? What is the ...