There seems to be no culling of birds in relation to the 1918 epidemic.
Tho, there also seems to be no definitive version of 1918 either.
Is that what they mean by ,”What is th first thing to die in a war?”?
Blue. There were no bird die-offs in 1918 because H1N1 was a low virulence subtype and did not kill birds, only humans, pigs and dogs.
O.K.
Where did it start and what year…where can I get information on how it started.
What i would like, in an ideal world, is to find a front page of a newspaper that says, “It’s here”, sort of thing. I would like to find a couple of newspaper articles talking about it. But I can’t!
I cannot find a thing(on the net)…or you have to pay for it.
You’re obviously saying it didn’t start from a vaccination in the army in Kansas!!?!
Is this classified information-‘cos I cannot figure out why it isn’t all over the internet?
Why would I be having trouble establishing this truth for myself?
Thankyou for your answer.
I read in a book that it was a different beast altogether.
Where are the newspaper articles: are they all in Spanish and haven’t been translated?
Ta.
Blue - go to the library if you can’t affford a copy, but get John Barry’s book THE GREAT INFLUENZA. It traces the entire history of the 1918–1919 outbreak. IT’s now available in paerback at a reasonable price.
Also, scout the forum topics, but there have been a few threads where people have linked to local newspapers actual coverage of the pandemic. There weren’t mass die-offs of most animals. Even if there had been, back then people would have assumed it was due to animal illnesses that had no treatments. Loosing livestock was an unfortuante part of life back then. People knew nothing of animal-to-people transmission. There was little understanding of viruses back then even in humans, let alone in mammals.
Cheers…
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