A Pteranodon ...
Posted on 11/29/2005 8:05:54 AM PST by Toidylop
"I can't even assign a hemisphere," he said. "It just came from somewhere else"
Dummy, it's from a comet.
Did you know that the 1918 flu pandemic started in Kansas?
Could the 1918 epidemic have been part of an attempt at biological warfare by the Central Powers in WWI?
They were desperate, clutching at straws, and searching for a weapon that would help them survive. They started using poison gas,
as one alternative. Did they consider using plague?
The outbreak began in the American army; it might have decimated that army worse than any battle, and rendered it unable to come to the battlefield until after the Germans had taken Paris and rendered American assistance irrelevant.
But the plague might have gotten out of control, and all records of its use been lost/destroyed.
(Just food for thought. . . )
Read the book, The Great Influenza by John Barry.
It started in Kansas, spread to a big troop facility, and thence to the rest of the world.
I saw a program linking the 1918 pandemic to the (American) use of mummy-wrappings in the production of brown paper bags - subsequently used to wrap meat. It's an interesting historical story: the link to the influenza isn't proven though.
Hmm. The Tunguska Comet impact was about this time wasn't it?
The science did not exist to use viruses in bio-warfare at the time of WWI.
Ping
Hadn't heard that one yet. Interesting...
Maybe it wasn't Tunguska? There was a big comet that exploded over Siberia in the very early 1900's. Never actually hit the earth but flattened a lot of the uninhabited countryside up there.
Tin foil hats won't protect from the flu. You need a tin foil mask sealed tightly over the nose and mouth and I guarantee - no flu.
A Pteranodon ...
Yea I think it was Tunguska. Alien flu
The truth is out there. Trust no one.
I thought this looked familiar.
Hazard in Hunt for New Flu: Looking for Bugs in All the Wrong Places
Science moves in mysterious ways, and sometimes what seems like the end of the story is really just the beginning. Or, at least, that is what some researchers are thinking as they scratch their heads over the weird genetic sequence of the 1918 flu virus.
The San Diego Union Tribune waited two weeks and gave it a new title. Since I started looking at regional papers around the country, I've noticed that a lot of regional papers seem to wait a little and slap new titles on stories from the NY Times and the Washington Post.
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