Search for "Spanish Influenza" and you'll find several articles and reports on the reconstituted genome. Yes, it is in the same "family". No, it most assuredly is NOT the 1918 flu. (Donuel, I never said it was. I just object to people saying "never seen before" when referring to a fairly common Type A, H1N1, virus. There ARE new things inside in the arrangement of amino acids -- but to say that an AH1N1 virus has "never been seen before" is like saying that a "red book" has never been seen before.)