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Cover ImageCover: Negative stained transmission electron micrograph (TEM) showing recreated 1918 influenza virions. Researchers are learning about other influenza strains by comparing them with the reconstructed virus that caused the notorious 1918 pandemic. (CDC Image: Cynthia Goldsmith, photographer, and Dr. Terrance Tumpey, provider.)
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Cover ImageCover: Negative stained transmission electron micrograph (TEM) showing recreated 1918 influenza virions. Researchers are learning about other influenza strains by comparing them with the reconstructed virus that caused the notorious 1918 pandemic. (CDC Image: Cynthia Goldsmith, photographer, and Dr. Terrance Tumpey, provider.)
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Microbiology Goes Digital
When Vincent Racaniello records “This Week in Virology” (TWiV) every Friday, his main aim is virologists. But he also is recording for professors, graduate students, lay people battling their own viruses, those individuals who dismiss viruses as conspiracies, and also for a beekeeper. “There&apos...
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What We Learned from Reconstructing the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Virus
The 1918 H1N1 pandemic led to as many as 50 million deaths worldwide, making it the deadliest human influenza virus in recorded history. Poor control measures and the erroneous belief that the culprit was a bacterium called Pfeiffer's bacillus, a gram-negative bacterium now recognized as
