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pablolarah Sep 7, 2024

🟠 Preparing for a pandemic that never came ended up setting off another − how an accidental virus release triggered 1977’s ‘Russian flu’

by Donald S. Burke at The Conversation IG: theconversationdotcom

#viruses #MoviePlot #RussianFlu

https://theconversation.com/preparing-for-a-pandemic-that-never-came-ended-up-setting-off-another-how-an-accidental-virus-release-triggered-1977s-russian-flu-236297

Preparing for a pandemic that never came ended up setting off another − how an accidental virus release triggered 1977’s ‘Russian flu’

An epidemiologist makes the case that a rush of research to stop a swine flu outbreak led to an accidental lab release of an extinct virus. Preparing for one pandemic triggered a different one.

The Conversation

Lorna Peel Jun 18, 2023

Russian Influenza – The Forgotten Pandemic

https://lornapeel.com/2023/06/18/russian-influenza

#TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries #19thCentury #RussianInfluenza #RussianFlu #InfluenzaPandemic #InfluenzaEpidemic #Pandemic #Epidemic #HistMed #MedicalHistory

Russian Influenza – The Forgotten Pandemic

The Russian influenza pandemic was one of the deadliest in history, killing about one million people worldwide during several waves between 1889 and 1895. It was the first modern pandemic, as it sp…

Lorna Peel

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AutisticMumTo3 Apr 11, 2023

A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a “mass disabling event”: Part 4 - World Socialist Web Site
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/08/long-a08.html

A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a “mass disabling event”: Part 4

This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses, and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe.

World Socialist Web Site

Pieter Kuiper 🇸🇪Nov 26, 2022

This is a shocking article about how biomedical labs have caused outbreaks. It is from 2014, originally from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.

I find it amazing that in all the #Covid coverage this got almost no attention. For example, I did not know that the 1977 #RussianFlu is now generally accepted to have escaped from a lab, although a #WHO report had denied this.

https://nationalpost.com/news/a-brief-terrifying-history-of-viruses-escaping-from-labs-70s-chinese-pandemic-was-a-lab-mistake/

A brief, terrifying history of viruses escaping from labs: 70s Chinese pandemic was a lab mistake

The danger of a manmade pandemic sparked by a laboratory escape is not hypothetical

National Post