The 1918 Flu Pandemic Started as a 'Bird Flu'

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Scientists at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, have been able to recreate and analyse this strain of flu, which killed some 50m people, using a tissue sample from the lungs of a man who died from this virus.

They have been working furiously on this in order to better understand the threat the current avian flu, H5N1, poses to the human population.

1918 Flu came from birds

Larger cities will probably have more infection control procedures in place than remote areas.

It's really anyone's guess right now. There's not much good to panicing or worrying. It will either happen that it comes to be transmissable from human to human or not. Or that some other virus comes to the forefront. It just appears this one is the most likely to go pandemic.

It's good to work together on these things and at least think of a plan of action, however. If it's not bird flu, it could easily be something else.

I talked about this a lot w/my gran who had Spanish flu. She had a very early 20th century approach to it all. As she put it, it was a plague. Plagues have happened throughout history to humans and will continue to happen. You either contract them or you don't. And if you do you either die or you survive.

Fair enough.

I went out and now everyone is quiet but here is another poke at the fire.

Poverty rising its head re. remote areas of Central East Asia. Alot of remote areas underwent great change when communism took stage. Deforestation at a rapid rate and cultivation encouraged or at least envisaged. These areas like central city ghettos like London used to be need to be assisted. The scientists to go there in respect, communication and ideas and have the conference.

My feeling that Western scientific responses to virus, disease, plague is misaligned in giving us just responses via vaccination. Whilst it is the cause at hand, I wish these repeatedly frequent threats to our human selves rather really reviewed around our living habits, our ecological Earth and all animals.

Let's hope H5N1 hasn't already made it to the Danube region . . .

bird flu reported in Romania

At any rate, it's time to put political differences behind us and support the world's scientists in their research.