When the news first surfaced in December of a flulike
outbreak in China, a lot of us here at Science News felt our spidey
senses tingle. China has sparked earlier outbreaks of diseases that travel from
animals to people, notably SARS, which emerged from a live-animal market in
2002 and killed 774 people worldwide.
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