The story of how the deadliest virus to humans was revived
The HinduThis is part I of a two-part story on the virus that caused the Great Influenza epidemic. Meet H and N In 1995, molecular pathologist Jeffery Taubenberger, who was working on the influenza virus, was trying to understand why some strains of the virus caused pandemics while others didn’t. Taubenberger realised that in order to do that, he needed to know the genetic makeup of the deadliest strain of influenza that had ever infected humans: the virus responsible for the 1918 disaster. Full genetic sequence And so, in August 1997, Johan Hultin, at the age of 72, went back to Brevig Mission to finish what he set out to do as a young graduate student 46 years earlier – to get the deadly 1918 H1N1 influenza virus. The samples he brought back allowed Taubenberger and Reid to determine the virus’s full genetic sequence.
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