Birth Year Predicts Odds If Flu Pandemic Were to Strike
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Your birth year predicts — to a certain extent — how likely you are to get seriously ill or die in an outbreak of an animal-origin influenza virus, according to a study co-led by researchers from the University of Arizona and UCLA. Until now, it was believed that previous exposure to a flu virus […]