Researchers who isolated antibodies from the elderly survivors of the horrific 1918 flu pandemic, found that they could be equally effecitve against similar outbreaks in future. The pandemic killed nearly 50 million people worldwide, many of whom were young, healthy adults. With fears of another looming flu pandemic stoked by the emergence of "bird flu" in Asia, researchers wanted to study the 1918 virus and the immune response to it.

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