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Influenza's wild origins in the animals around us

  • Written by Jonathan Runstadler, Professor of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
People and animals live side by side – and can have pathogens in common.Nichola Hill, CC BY-ND

In the early 20th century, the leading cause of death was infectious disease. Epidemics erupted with little warning, seemingly out of the blue. When the “Great Influenza” struck in 1918, it killed thousands of people a week in American...

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