Researchers Believe Origin Of 1977 “Russian Flu” Most Likely an Unintentional Lab Release In China – IOTW Report

Researchers Believe Origin Of 1977 “Russian Flu” Most Likely an Unintentional Lab Release In China

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In 1977 a flu broke out in northeast China which eventually spread to Russia and then around the world. It eventually took the lives of approximately 700,000 people around the world most of whom were young. It came to be known as the “Russian flu” because Russia was the first country to report it to the WHO. Scientists who examined its DNA concluded it was nearly identical to a previous strain of the flu virus which had caused an outbreak between 1949 and 1950. More

9 Comments on Researchers Believe Origin Of 1977 “Russian Flu” Most Likely an Unintentional Lab Release In China

  1. “This can’t be true because it can’t be blamed on Reagan, Bush, Bush, or Trump.”

    – The US’s Worthless Piece of Shit Corporate Fascist Press Corps

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  2. …you know, I was watching an Elvis movie last night, and started looking up the cast, and found that everyone in it was dead (except for Elvis of course, LOL), including the then-10 year old actress that played a daughter of Elvis’ freind.

    Time will do that.

    …so it’s always nice when they can draw these “investigations” out to where they no longer matter, you may as well try to prosecute Henry V for pushing into the Hundred Years War for all the GOOD it’ll do ya…

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  3. I think Tucker had a guest on last night that was saying we should be thankful it was COVID with a 1% mortality rate that they were playing around with and released and not 15% mortality SARS.

    But with China’s track record, we had better be prepared for another of their unintentional releases of an even worse modified virus.

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  4. I’m waiting for the first “journalist” to stop using the euphemism “gain of function” and replace it with the more accurate and understandable term, “weaponization”.

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