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Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic swept the world ... The article was just eight sentences long. But Hilleman needed only the four words of the headline to ...

Hilleman, however, needed eggs not for his breakfast, but to make the vaccines that were key to stopping a potential influenza pandemic. Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza ...

mysteries surrounding the 1918 pandemic have not been fully solved and new pandemics continue to evolve. These pandemics expose the fact that there are gaps that need to be addressed in influenza ...

“This particular bird flu virus, in its variants, has actually been around for a long time—over a decade ... the so-called “Spanish flu” of 1918–1919, when the Centers for Disease ...

We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...