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SUMMARY:Influenza pandemics: past and future - Wendy Barclay
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CONTACT:Maya Ben Yami
DESCRIPTION:2018 marks the centenary of the worst infectious disease outbr
 eak to have affected modern man\, the Spanish influenza pandemic.  More th
 an 50 million people around the world died as a result of infection by tha
 t deadly pathogen. Influenza pandemics arise every few decades from an ale
 atoric event of nature that gives opportunity for an animal virus to adapt
  to man. Understanding why some strains of avian influenza virus can manag
 e this evolutionary trick but others do not will eventually allow us to be
 tter predict the human pandemic threat posed by each new virus as it emerg
 es. \n\nThe talk is open to the public!\n\n*Start: 18:00*\n1hr talk follow
 ed by a Q&A\, then cheese & wine & a chat!\n\nWhere: Pfizer lecture theatr
 e\, Chemistry department\n\nMembers: Free | Non-members: £3\n\nhttps://ww
 w.facebook.com/events/909963789203855/
LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Road
 \, Cambridge
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