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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Post by David Bradley Science Writer. You can get in touch with David via email or check out his CV on the Sciencebase.com site.
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. .
- Frank Herbert
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