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Flu Fears: The Race Between Pandemic Viruses And A Universal Vaccine

John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, on this year’s epidemic.

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Brian Snyder/Reuters, via Landov

The recent upsurge of influenza has officially crossed the line– although so far just barely—into epidemic status, and it looks like it will be a bad year.

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