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I think anybody that got all conspiranoid about the bird flu and swine flu alarms of the last decade should read the accounts of the Spanish flu, a bird flu. Y
by euyyn 9y ago
I think anybody that got all conspiranoid about the bird flu and swine flu alarms of the last decade should read the accounts of the Spanish flu, a bird flu.
Young adults coughing blood foam. Towns where every single person died. Cities with bodies piled up on the streets because the undertakers died or wouldn't approach them.
The WHO raised the alarms because a bad bird flu is alarming.
- thephyber 9y ago> read the accounts of the Spanish flu, a bird flu The non-human source of the Spanish Influenza is still debatable.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu_research
- euyyn 9y agoThe article and the footnotes make it sound like the real debate is whether it went directly from bird to human, or jumped to swine first. EDIT: The abstract of the paper that questions the origin asserts: > In light of this alternative interpretation, we suggest that the current intense surveillance of influenza viruses should be broadened to include mammalian sources.