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[snip] Before motorized vehicles, horses were the backbone of the transportation industry. And so the Great Epizootic of 1872, a horse epidemic in North America, is history that deserves to be remembered. [/snip]Horse Flu: The Great Epizootic of 1872 | 16:59The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered1.14M subscribers | 3,532 views | January 23, 2023

What horses can tell us now about the coming human flu pandemicApril 23, 2008A computer-generated three-dimensional model of the molecular structure of the H7 influenza virus coat protein (hemagglutinin or HA, for short), the molecule responsible for enabling the influenza virus to recognize the host's cell and invade it. Stored safely in a freezer at Cornell's James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health are samples of the virus thought to be most like the one public health experts expect someday to afflict record numbers of the world's population. The virus was collected in 1973 during an outbreak of equine influenza...