More flu science [Effect Measure]

While we fritter away our last week at the beach, here’s another installment of past posts on flu science. There are three subjects, but one of them took three installments to relate. That’s because these involve cutting edge science papers in influenza science and we wanted to take enough time to explain them in ways that were understandable to non scientists. It’s likely we weren’t completely successful in every case, but even if you don’t understand every detail, you can get a flavor for the struggle taking place in laboratories all over the world to understand this virus:

• “The complexity of the spread of flu virus”
• “Antibodies from survivors of 1918 era pandemic”
• “Important new flu paper in Cell“:
  

  Part I, Part II, Part III

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