Scientists: 1918 Killer Spanish Flu Was a Bird Flu

Fox News ^ | October 05, 2005 | Daniel J. DeNoon

[stm]

Scientists who re-created the 1918 Spanish flu say the killer virus was initially a bird flu that learned to infect people. Alarmingly, they find that today's H5N1 bird flu is starting to learn the same tricks.

The work involves researchers from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), the CDC, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Jeffery K. Taubenberger, MD, PhD, chief of molecular pathology at the AFIP, is one of the study leaders.

[SunkenCiv]

A woman pilot? Oh, well that, uh, never mind. ;')

[Seadog Bytes]

RE: "...and the pilot faked his own death for some nefarious reason. Police should search for a sneezing man with really bad cold sores."

Ah HA! I had THOUGH they were being a little pollyanna-ish with that "...no-worries - all-the-viri-burned-up-in-the-fire bit.   ...Now you've gone and confirmed my suspicions.

[omega4179]

Swine Flu will wipe us out!

Comet Kehoutek will wipe us out!


Y2K will wipe us out!


oh wait...

[RipSawyer]

Considering both my parents survived the 1918 Pandemic, I wonder if the immunity is passed on.
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Both my parents survived it, my father would have been around five years old and my mother around two, I came close to death in the 1968 epidemic. I was twenty four years old and should have been the strongest member of my family but I was the one who nearly died.

[RipSawyer]

It turned out to be a bust. No plague of flu. no masive deaths, except some older people who died in line waiting for the shots.

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Let's talk about 38 years ago, I nearly died in 1968 from the flu. I ran a fever of 105, had hallucinations and felt as though someone had beaten me with a stick from head to foot without missing a single square inch. I remember saying, "even my hair hurt".

[SunkenCiv]

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