{"id":1933,"date":"2014-06-11T18:47:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T23:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2014-06-11T19:03:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T00:03:40","slug":"spanish-flu-could-re-emerge-from-avian-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/spanish-flu-could-re-emerge-from-avian-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish flu could re-emerge from avian flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Influenza viruses circulating among wild birds could, in the right combinations, combine to create a virus very similar to that which caused the 1918 worldwide pandemic known as \u201cSpanish Flu\u201d, according to a new paper. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">The authors combined avian flu viral segments that were only a few amino acids different than those of the Spanish Flu to create a new virus that was more deadly than an ordinary avian flu, though not as deadly as the actual Spanish Flu virus. The results suggest that such a pandemic could re-emerge from existing bird flu strains under the right circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-host-microbe\/abstract\/S1931-3128(14)00163-2\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Cell Host &amp; Microbe<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 11, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Yoshihiro Kawaoka, University of Wisconsin &#8211; Madison, U.S.A.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influenza viruses circulating among wild birds could, in the right combinations, combine to create a virus very similar to that which caused the 1918 worldwide pandemic known as \u201cSpanish Flu\u201d, according to a new paper. The authors combined avian flu viral segments that were only a few amino acids different than those of the Spanish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[113,917,51,53,476],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biology","tag-evolution","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-vb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}