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To: elmatador who wrote (74509)2/23/2020 12:23:46 PM
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There is one fact Most flu's originate in China. 99.9% in SE Asia. Only one in 1918 was thought to possibly to have started in Europe. During the F/W War many troops were housed in one location. There were 100,000 soldiers on any one day there, and they raised chickens, geese and possibly pigs for food, Oxford said. Those conditions mimicked what naturally occurs in Asia. However further research disputed the claim.


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health/


A bird flu strain also arose in the Netherlands, albeit of a milder strain. The Dutch may have averted an epidemic by slaughtering their entire chicken population within one week.

In 2014 the Avian virus also was detected at big poultry farms in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia Canada. All chickens were destroyed before the virus had a chance to mutate to the human population.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/avian-flu-detected-at-2-more-farms-in-b-c-s-fraser-valley-1.2142188

The problem is, In S/E Asia , China in particular immediately euthanizing the birds does not happen under their communist regime like it does in more civilized democratic countries.

It is commonly accepted birds are the origin of the flu strain. Being kept in close quarters with Humans and a possible lack of cleanliness allows the virus foster and mutate.

Climate plays a role. “Respiratory viruses, like orchids, like the Asian climate, because they have influenza viruses nearly all year round. It’s not seasonal as it is in the rest of the world,” said John Oxford, a flu expert from Queen Mary School of Medicine in London.

Until Asia develops enough to offer their poor a route to higher quality lifestyle the flu will continue to wreak Havoc on the rest of the world. Even more now than before as humans now live in much closer quarters with each other due to air travel. China is but a few hours travel from any point on earth.
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