2006-02-25

Killer Flu Reconstructed

    日前致使5000万-1亿人丧生的1918西班牙大流感重新引起医学界的关注，病毒学家从地下尸体分离出的病毒源头是否仍对全人类具有威胁？

All Things Considered, A flu virus that killed tens of millions worldwide after it appeared in 1918 has been recreated in the virological equivalent of the Jurassic Park story. Scientists rebuilt it from pieces of genetic material retrieved from the lungs of people who died 87 years ago.