The Persistent Legacy of the 1918 Influenza Virus
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- 16 July 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 361 (3) , 225-229
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp0904819
Abstract
It is not generally appreciated that descendents of the H1N1 influenza A virus that caused the catastrophic and historic pandemic of 1918–1919 have persisted in humans for more than 90 years and have continued to contribute their genes to new viruses, causing new pandemics, epidemics, and epizootics (see table ). The current international pandemic caused by a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus derived from two unrelated swine viruses, one of them a derivative of the 1918 human virus,3 adds to the complexity surrounding this persistent progenitor virus, its descendants, and its several lineages (see diagram ).Keywords
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