
Originally Posted by
dawg80
I did not know this...
the 1968 Hong Kong Flu pandemic began in the US in California, brought here by troops returning from Vietnam. Only a handful of soldiers were infected but no one knew about it, and they were not quarantined in any fashion. It spread like wildfire from there. Over a two-year period it killed 100,000 Americans, and close to 1.5 million worldwide.
The Hong Kong Flu is H3N2 and is related to the much worse pandemic of 1957 "Asian Flu" (H2N2). And every "normal" flu outbreak we see today in the US is a direct offspring of these two bugs. In other words two viruses, both started in Asia, and are now a permanent reality here. Now, we see another Asian virus, this Covid-19, a separate, but equally troubling, virus that now here, will mutate into other forms and has become permanently rooted here.
Thank you Asia!
BUILD THAT WALL!!! (and I use that to also mean travel controls (airports) from "drag" nations)