Friday, October 14, 2005

The 1918 Flu Pandemic...

...was a bird flu that jumped, just like H5N1.

Author Gina Kolata also wrote Flu, THE book on the pandemic. Get your Tamiflu-- its coming, sooner or later.

2 comments:

Chas S. Clifton said...

Nova or one of those PBS shows once presented a fairly good case that the "jump" occurred at a jam-packed transit camp for WWI Allied troops in northern France, where ducks, geese, and chickens were raised for the mess halls.

Reid Farmer said...

While in Arkansas last week, a big waterfowler state, I saw spots on TV cautioning hunters about avian flu in wild birds