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	It's Evolved!

rfnajera

1-30-2008 8:59 AM

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flu, influenza, tamiflu, resistance, pandemic, epidemic, canada

rfnajera says:

H1N1, by the way, is the same virus that caused the 1918 pandemic. Scaaaary. (Not.)

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