What do you wager are the odds that in the midst of the h1n1 epidemic there will be an appearance of "vintage" strain 1918 spanish flu as well, perhaps indistiguishable from the lowlier swine flu?

there was a great flurry around the project of rebuilding these past few years, and now it seems there was an experiment last fall to deliberately infect pigs with the "vintage" 1918 human swine flu.


It's got to be somebody's pride and joy right? WHO could resist the temptation to take old faithful out for a night on the town?

I apologize if this has been discussed before. But seeing this year's h1n1 and the 1918 "gripa" uttered in the same sentence so many times together, it almost gets to feeling like an invocation at times.

[edit on 4-11-2009 by Asphodelven]

Originally posted by Asphodelven

What do you wager are the odds that in the midst of the h1n1 epidemic there will be an appearance of "vintage" strain 1918 spanish flu as well, perhaps indistiguishable from the lowlier swine flu?

there was a great flurry around the project of rebuilding these past few years, and now it seems there was an experiment last fall to deliberately infect pigs with the "vintage" 1918 human swine flu.


It's got to be somebody's pride and joy right? WHO could resist the temptation to take old faithful out for a night on the town?

I apologize if this has been discussed before. But seeing this year's h1n1 and the 1918 "gripa" uttered in the same sentence so many times together, it almost gets to feeling like an invocation at times.

[edit on 4-11-2009 by Asphodelven]

Didn't Karl Marx write, "first time tragedy, second time farce". To paraphrase.

He was writing about Napolean 1 and Napolean 3.

Even if something like the 1918 spanish flu did turn up out of the blue it still would not kill as many people as it did in western countries.We have better technology and medicines now to fight a virus like that, than in 1918.We have better security and health protocols that would restrict the spread of a virus like this.I cannot say the same about third world countries or countries like ukrain who have substanded health and security protocols.Some parts of Africa for examlpe would be a disaster.

[edit on 4-11-2009 by GORGANTHIUM]

Ah yes, I forgot about the reassuring hints about roadblocks and national guard regiments, of course!