...And it will be all over the world, and there is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, anyone can do to stop it.
Unless you shut down all cross-border travel for a few months. That's how Spanish Flu died out. The virus did not get enough fresh meat quick enough to evolve.
How many times does it have to be said people. How many times does it take for people to wrap their heads around the concept. Banning air-travel from an infected country to pointless, because by the time the new strain has been detected, it is too late.
How many times do we have to go over this, people?
Maybe that is why the Biden admin just lifted the SA travel ban? Because hello, it was stupid?
Not exactly true and it took about 50 million people worldwide to die off and about another 450 million to develop immunity because there were no vaccines available during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.
World War I was the cause of the spread of Influenza via troops being transported by ships and then by land upon arrival along with the fact that there were not enough medical personnel to give proper healthcare.
‘The 1918 flu is still with us’: The deadliest pandemic ever is still causing problems today
In 1918, a novel strand of influenza killed more people than the 14th century’s Black Plague.
At least
50 million people died worldwide because of that H1N1 influenza outbreak. The dead were buried in mass graves. In Philadelphia, one of the hardest-hit cities in the country, priests collected bodies with horse-drawn carriages.
In the middle of today’s novel coronavirus outbreak, some are turning to the conclusion of past pandemics to discern how and when life might “return to normal.” The Washington Post has received
a few dozen questions from readers who want historical context for our current epidemic. But how did the deadliest pandemic ever recorded come to an end?
Over time, those who contracted the virus developed an immunity to the novel strand of influenza, and life returned to normal by the early 1920s, according to historians and medical experts. Reports at the time suggest the virus became less lethal as the pandemic carried on in waves.
But the strand of the flu didn’t just disappear. The influenza virus continuously mutated, passing through humans, pigs and other mammals. The pandemic-level virus morphed into just another seasonal flu. Descendants of the 1918 H1N1 virus make up the influenza viruses we’re fighting today.
“The 1918 flu is still with us, in that sense,” said
Ann Reid, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education who successfully sequenced the genetic makeup of the 1918 influenza virus in the 1990s. “It never went away.”
It’s not clear exactly how or where the 1918 influenza outbreak began, but, at some point, the novel H1N1 virus passed from birds to humans.
From start to finish, the flu could burn through a town or city in a matter of weeks. Very few people had ever contended with a concoction of influenza like this before, which is why it was so potent, Reid said...
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In immunology, virology, and infectious disease classes today, you learn that viruses have a natural progression where a virus often — but not always — becomes less lethal as time wears on.
It’s in the best interest of the virus for it to spread before killing the host. Simply, virues want to live and if they kill every human and every animal on the planet...they will die.
Thus, evolution has taught viruses to "become milder" after several waves of infection so that they can survive within a human host without killing everybody. The reason why we today still have Influenza and society has excepted that natural progression with the aid of the seasonal Flut shot (booster shot).
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