LOOKING BACK: During the Spanish flu pandemic, 1928-20, [https://bit.ly/2vYTVxJ], case results based on published peer-reviewed medical literature demonstrated how transfusions of convalescent serum (blood products obtained from survivors) may have contributed to a 50% reduction in deaths among severely-ill patients. During the Ebola and avian flu outbreaks, convalescent plasma-derived therapy was also used to treat patients, according to a US National Institutes of Health Study in 2011 [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16940336/] [2] https://bit.ly/38FKJM]f
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