Flu virus 'is the greatest bio-terror threat of all' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 28/11/2003) Nature's "on-going experiments" with influenza strains "may be the greatest bio-terror threat of all", with the world alarmingly unprepared for a global epidemic, researchers warn today. Another pandemic of the kind that killed up to 40 million people worldwide in 1918 is inevitable - and could be imminent, according to a team from St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. The threat of such a pandemic influenza is much greater than that posed this winter by the Fujian strain, which is already circulating in...