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Flu may not be as lethal as was feared (Honolulu Advertiser)
Top health officials in the United States and abroad yesterday projected a cautious optimism that the new virus is not as lethal as initially feared. Genetic analysis has failed to detect in the influenza virus the "virulence factors" seen in the killer 1918 Spanish flu or the bird flu that surfaced earlier this decade, said Richard Besser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...