There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza ... the structure and function of the virus ...

Reid, A. H., & Tautenberger, J. K. The origin of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus: A continuing enigma. Journal of General Virology 84, 2285–2292 (2003) ...

Influenza A virus ... nonstructural protein 1 and PB1-frame 2 are produced. Only nonstructural protein 1 and PB1-frame 2 are not incorporated into the virus particle, and are found only in ...

To find the answer, they developed a way to observe and measure real-time influenza A virus structure during formation. The researchers found: Influenza A viruses rapidly adjust their shape when ...