Flu virus recreated in a lab could unleash new deadly pandemic rivaling 1918 Spanish flu
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
There is a famous picture from 1918, during which time the U.S. (and the world) was under assault from a flu pandemic. It shows row after row of bedridden soldiers, and it resembles an optical illusion, like a double-mirror effect. It is a stirring image to accompany world-changing events that began in January 1918 and quickly engulfed the planet.
As noted by The Washington Post, there is little about the Spanish flu — a virus that ultimately affected one-third of all people on Earth and which would go on to kill some 50 million people — that makes sense. Most influenza outbreaks tend to only kill the weakest among us — the young, elderly and the infirm. But the Spanish flu, which was called the “greatest medical holocaust in history,” targeted and killed healthy adults. Even now, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, “its origins remain puzzling.” The study called it “the mother of all pandemics”
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