The 1918 Flu Pandemic…

…was a bird flu that jumped, just like H5N1.

Author Gina Kolata also wrote Flu, THE book on the pandemic. Get your Tamiflu– its coming, sooner or later.

2 comments

  1. Nova or one of those PBS shows once presented a fairly good case that the “jump” occurred at a jam-packed transit camp for WWI Allied troops in northern France, where ducks, geese, and chickens were raised for the mess halls.

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