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Good luck, there's still academics debating about the 1977 "Russian" flu [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1

Good luck, there's still academics debating about the 1977 "Russian" flu [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu

Aachen 3y ago
> The outbreak in northern China started in May 1977 Coincidence? Do they have a climate conducive to these sorts of viruses combined with a large enough population to make it likely they get infected first or is this my selection bias in noticing when it says "started in China" versus any other country?
- philjohn 3y ago
  Large population that lives very close to natural reservoirs for viruses. Spillover is a great book to read about zoonotic diseases.
- pvg 3y ago
  It would be odd vs any other country if any other country contained a quarter of the world population in 1977.