The skeletons of people who were alive during the 1918 flu pandemic have revealed new clues as to those more likely to die from the virus, according to a new study.
The skeletons of people who were alive during the 1918 flu pandemic have revealed new clues about people who were more likely to die from the virus. Known as the deadliest in history, the 1918 flu pandemic — also referred to as the Spanish flu — killed an estimated 50 million people, or one-fifth of the world’s population.
Overall, the researchers noted that the project highlights the importance of studying the past. 'Studying past pandemics and epidemics provides us with a time depth to our understanding of how these diseases affect humans and how we, in turn, affect diseases,' Wissler told Fox News Digital. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP 'A lot of the time, we find that the risk factors for disease that we have today were the same in the past.
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