World’s Deadliest Virus: ‘Spanish Flu’ Reverse Engineered, Recreated. Scientists in the U.S. and Canada have resurrected the Spanish flu virus through reverse genetics. Not surprisingly, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are involved .
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I don’t recall the source but I remember reading that it wasn’t the Spanish flu virus that was the most deadly, rather it was bacterial infections that people got from shutting themselves up in filthy, unsanitary homes to escape the suspected flu carriers. And later on there were experiments done in which the Spanish flu virus was replicated and given to test subjects who did not readily get infected and, if so, did not die.
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I have to wonder, considering a few “off-side” reports, if this was actually a mild flu, mixed with some sort of chemical component that made it much, much worse than it would have been naturally. Considering the years in which it originally occurred, I can’t dismiss this possibility.
[found a reference] The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone … Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza Pandemic, August 19, 2008 News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza Pandemic, August 19, 2008 News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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One of the world’s great Virgos, assiduously counting seeds
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Never mind. Video okay.
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Don’t trust NIH worth toffee, but Bacterial Pneumonia actually makes sense.