9 Influenza Puzzles

A research paper published last year aimed to address 9 puzzling things about influenza:

Why is influenza seasonal and ubiquitous, where does the virus hide between epidemics?

Why are the epidemics so fast to spread?

Why do they end so quickly?

Why do countries on similar latitudes have coincidental epidemics?

Why is the serial interval obscure?

Why is the secondary attack [...]

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