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Cold comfort for flu sufferers
For centuries it has silently stalked us, killing tens of millions of people and evading all the best efforts at a permanent cure. It is influenza, a potentially lethal bug whose unique ability to reinvent itself in deadlier forms has prompted researchers to dub it the "last great virus" facing humanity. CBC Archives explores the deadly history of influenza and looks at what's being done to avoid a new global pandemic.
Program: The National Magazine
Broadcast Date: Feb. 14, 1997
Guest(s): Leslie Lavac, Pat Reney
Reporter: Jennifer Scott
Duration: 3:30
Last updated: December 20, 2012
Page consulted on January 8, 2013
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