Distribution and Significance of Asian and Other Influenza Antibodies in the Human Population

ITNFECTION in man with influenza virus is followed by the genesis of antibody and resultant immunity. Such antibody is relatively strain specific and reflects prior experience with influenza virus according to antigenic family and subgroup as well as to type. Examination of serum samples from various segments of the population for antibody spectrum is important, therefore, in the retrospective sense in judging past occurrence of a particular virus in the group and, in the predictive sense, in appraising the probable future occurrence of the virus in the population. Previous reports from this1 and other laboratories2 , 3 have recorded the spectrum of . . .