Flu Research Once Banned Because It Was Deemed Too Dangerous Is Set to Resume

Re:Flu Research Once Banned Because It Was Deemed Too Danger... by ceejayoz on Friday March 08, 2019 @01:51PM (#19340789)

The flu killed somewhere between 50 and 100 million people in 1918. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

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Re:Flu Research Once Banned Because It Was Deemed Too Danger... by saalweachter on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:34PM (#19341341)

The 2017-2018 flu season killed an estimated 80,000 people in the US. [Flu deaths are not precisely reported, except for children and infants, but the CDC estimates the death toll each year.]

That beats firearm and motor vehicle deaths combined.

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Re:Flu Research Once Banned Because It Was Deemed Too Danger... by sametmax on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:32PM (#19341320)

Not the same thing. It's called flu, but it's only in name.

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Re:Flu Research Once Banned Because It Was Deemed Too Danger... by ceejayoz on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:40PM (#19341423)

Nah.

> The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920; colloquially known as Spanish flu) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.

H1N1 is one of the three types of flu (flu A-H1N1, flu A-H3N2, and flu B) the annual flu shot protects against: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine

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Re:Flu Research Once Banned Because It Was Deemed Too Danger... by tongo on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:17PM (#19342273)

I'm sorry, but you are factually wrong. It was the influenza virus. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu_research

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