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Originally Posted by davew
some have suggested the new virus is the same one that caused the worldwide pandeminic during world war I. Fauci and others from CDC authorized digging up dead people from permafrost in Alaska that died in 1917-1918 to do research on it (since it is illegal in USA, they sent the stuff to Wuhan)
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2391305/
Researchers in Alaska and in Northern Europe have already found samples of that virus and its genome has been sequenced and it is NOT the same as the current bug.
quote: It is now believed that the pandemic virus appearing in 1918 was transmitted from humans to pigs, at that time splitting off into two lineages, one human, the other porcine.
Both lineages persist today, the classical swine influenza lineage having evolved continually since 1918, and the human lineage having caused pandemic and endemic influenza from 1918 to 1956.
In June 1951, an expedition consisting of Hultin, McKee, and the team’s renowned pathologist Jack M Layton (1917–), left for Alaska. At Brevig Mission the permafrost conditions were promising, and permission to perform an exhumation was obtained. The team, joined in Alaska by Geist, made rapid progress digging. Reaching a depth of 2 m, a layer of bodies was discovered, placed side by side. Layton opened the rib cages of four bodies, exposing frozen, dark red, expanded lungs. Generous biopsies from eight lungs were obtained and, while still frozen, placed in sterile containers that were then put into thermal jugs and kept frozen with carbon dioxide snow from fire extinguishers. Dr. FAUCI had NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS EXPEDITION. It is has already been done and is NOT illegal at all.
Where do you get this FICTION? PBS had a complete NOVA show about these efforts!
Viral sequence data now suggest that the entire 1918 virus was novel to humans in, or shortly before, 1918, and that it was not likely to have been a reassortant virus such as those that caused the 1957 and 1968 pandemics. Rather, the 1918 virus is an avian-influenza-like virus that appears to have been derived in toto from an unknown source because its eight genome segments differ from contemporary avian influenza genes,
