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The widespread assumption that pandemic influenza is an exceptionally deadly form of seasonal, or nonpandemic, flu is hard to support, according to a new study in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

The study challenges common beliefs about the flu--in particular the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claim that `the hallmark of pandemic influenza is excess mortality.`

Peter Doshi, a graduate student in the History, Anthropology, and Science, Technol