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The Conversation, and ,Hayley Muendlein

Viruses and bacteria can team up in the worst possible way


The 1918 influenza pandemic resulted in the loss of over 3 percent of the world’s population — at least 50 million people. But it wasn’t the flu virus that caused the majority of these deaths.

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