Some modern researchers think the 1918 Spanish Influenza was a bird flu:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1005_051005_bird_flu.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171329,00.html
Some think it originated in Kansas:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=340389
Personally, I think a modern bird flu pandemic is not unlikely.
Fran
Lavolta Press
http://www.lavoltapress.com
Abel, Cynthia wrote:
Despite its name: The Spanish influenza or Spanish Lady, modern
researchers think the 1918-1919 flu pandemic began somewhere in Asia and
it was of swine origin and a new or very long dormant mutation.
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