Unearthing the Spanish Flu of 1918

Broadcast Date: March 21, 1997 (CBC)

This audio takes a look at the deadly Spanish Flu of 1918, and how it was unearthed in the 1990's by scientists exhuming corpses buried in the permafrost in a region of northern Canada. The 1976 swine flu outbreak was a subtype of this deadly strain of virus, which emerged at Fort Dix in New Jersey. No doubt the current strain of swine flu is a bioengineered version of the 1918 Spanish (swine) Flu.

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From http://archives.cbc.ca/health/disease/topics/1965-12706/

Unearthing a Deadly Mystery

It's the question disease experts have been asking for decades: how did the Spanish flu kill so many, so fast especially the young and healthy? After years of searching, a U.S. Army pathologist has isolated the first known sample of the notorious 1918 virus in the lung tissue of a soldier killed during the First World War. In this clip, CBC Radio's Michael Enright discusses the implications of the landmark discovery and its significance for future research.

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• Pandemic
• swine flu
• avian
• quarantine
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• fearmongering
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• CDC
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[gangstagrannie]

anyone suprised it began in the US?

[gangstagrannie]

Well, its unlikely - these things usually begin in the US or the UK - that's where they generally create these viruses. The other countries seem slightly more mentally balanced and don't want to kill their own.

[ajgolfer1]

@gangstagrannie yes in 1918 they could design viruses thats the same year mr rodgers elvis and woodrow wilson planned 9/11

[warriorprince1010]

@gangstagrannie The largest amounts of smallpox virus is storage are in Russia. Remember it was in French and Belgium slave camps where HIV was found to have originated. However it was indeed big US Pharmaceuticals companies who released Swine flu.

[ClarksonsinUSA]

@gangstagrannie you are seem not so bright..

[eskercurve]

@gangstagrannie *rolls eyes* get over yourself.

[Gregarious3]

@gangstagrannie Did not have the technology in 1918 to develop that kind of fancy crap yet.

But still, remember Mao, Hitler, and the Japanese of the 1930s and what they did to China. Humans can be very nasty.

[burdekinbarra]

thank god us Australians found the medical plant that i think can cure viruses

[Metalchurch1993]

it could just as well begin anywhere else...

[baggagequeen]

You got that right, gangstagrannie; not surprised at all! Omg thanks for sending it.