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Freddie

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8. Probably in Kansas

Reply to Marrah_Goodman (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 21, 2020, 09:20 PM

Apr 2020

Possibly from pigs, since they can get human flu.
Might have stayed local except for a couple of young men who enlisted to fight WWI and took the flu with them to basic training. As personnel were transferred from base to base it spread like wildfire in the crowded camps.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] Freelancer Apr 2020 OP

Genetic testing lets one track the origins and subsequent movements of the virus through populations hlthe2b Apr 2020 #1

No. It began in Wuhan China, transmitted from a small animal. Maybe in the wild, maybe in a lab. nt LAS14 Apr 2020 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Apr 2020 #3

You can catch this from someone breathing near you Marrah_Goodman Apr 2020 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Apr 2020 #7

I remember reading that the 1918 Spanish Flu originated in Kansas. n/t Beartracks Apr 2020 #4

That is one theory, there are a few Marrah_Goodman Apr 2020 #5

Probably in Kansas Freddie Apr 2020 #8

That theory has largely been refuted. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2020 #12

If most Americans had it, Igel Apr 2020 #9

Before We continue to conjecture about how it may bobalew Apr 2020 #10

It came from china...Wuhan most likely...as that is where you saw the first cases. It doesn't matter Demsrule86 Apr 2020 #11