How the USSR Fought Deadly Epidemics

Russia Beyond ^ | MARCH 27 2020 | BORIS EGOROV

[foreverfree]

Ukrainian bump

[miss marmelstein]

By shooting everyone with it?

[Jim W N]

Easy. They killed the infected and suspected infected. No problem.

[nickcarraway]

Sounds like them.

[dfwgator]

[Fiji Hill]

Penetrating from Iran, a wave of cholera swept the entire Soviet Black Sea coast in 1970.

In 1971, I was headed for Europe to spend a year studying in Germany. Because I planned to travel to the Soviet Union, I was vaccinated against cholera.

[caver]

Only three died from the fatal disease, the rest got lead poisoning.

[Nateman]

...accidental release of anthrax spores from a military biological laboratory

An independent investigation mapped out where Victims were at the time of the suspected release of the Anthrax. It clearly showed a downwind pattern from the military lab. When sheep that died were mapped it formed an even larger cloud of death emanating from the same place.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I worked in China in 1976-1977. Got cholera, typhus, typhoid, yellow fever, tetanus and a whole bunch of other vaccinations to be able to go.

[Nifster]

They sent the sick to Siberian labor camps

[PIF]

By shooting everyone with it?

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Its the Russians, not the Chinese. What are you thinking?

[ptsal]

I remember the air gun vaccinations in the army. Get in a line and both arms...whomp whomp both arms...and a little stream of blood.

[RebelTXRose]

I remember walking with whole family to nearby public school for the Polio sugar cubes.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Its the Russians, not the Chinese. What are you thinking?

That there is not a dimes worth of difference?

[dfwgator]

Only three died from the fatal disease, the rest got lead poisoning.

You mean the "Kremlin Flu".

[caver]

You mean the “Kremlin Flu”.

Or the “Communist Flu”.

[miss marmelstein]

I’m thinking I know history better than you.

[Fiji Hill]

I worked in China in 1976-1977. Got cholera, typhus, typhoid, yellow fever, tetanus and a whole bunch of other vaccinations to be able to go.

I've had all of those except yellow fever. When I went to Germany in 1961, I had to be vaccinated against typhoid and typhus. The side effect of the typhoid shot was soreness that felt like a bruise, but the typhus shot felt like a bee sting.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My dad got vaccinated at Cornell University in WW II. He always liked telling me how he collapsed after the shots and fell down the stairs in front of the building.