Scientists Have Re-Created The Deadly 1918 Flu Virus. Why?

With all the controversy about gain-of-function research and all the concerns about how dangerous it is, you might think that scientists have stopped doing that kind of work.

In the latest news, a team of scientists in Canada and the U.S. report that they have re-created the 1918 influenza virus and used it to infect macaques. Let’s be clear here: the 1918 flu vanished from the Earth, long ago. It’s simply not a threat, or it least it wasn’t, until someone figured out a way to bring it back.

>>They have to stop this. It’s a crime.<<
It’s not a crime if you have no evidence. The communist Chinese blocked all international investigations into the origins of the WuHuFlu.

This was unleashed on the world by Chi-na! They’ll never be held accountable. Too much $$$ flowing into multinational corporations.

The virus attacked the young men because of the war. It was devastating in the black community and caused miscarriages and death for young mothers. Because of the war, Otherwise normal healthy immune systems were degraded by poor diets, malaise like trench foot, dysentery etc.. that made those in the military extremely vulnerable to the virus. There were an insufficient number of healthcare workers stateside due to the war. There were no antibiotics to treat the bacterial infections nor anti-viral drugs. The flu spread rapidly through military Camps and crowded troop ships. From the Camps the flu spread into the local communities.

One theory held that older people had developed natural immunity's to the flu because of exposure to the flu epidemics in the late 1800s. They cannot give accurate flu death rates amongst the military because many never made it to hospitals and were just carried as war casualties. Little children were vulnerable, as they are today, because they lacked natural immunity and would succumb guickly to the bacterial infections that are part of the flu.

Like I said that pandemic was a perfect storm of issues that influenced the spread of the flu and it virulence.

“Even so the only purposes I can see for “gain of function” research are bacteriological warfare and selling vaccines.”

Yeah. Back in the day, “gain of function” was called “weaponization.”

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