Here's what Wikipedia says:
"The Spanish Flu vanished within eighteen months, and the actual
cause was not determined at the time. It appears to have been an H1
virus type (the outbreaks of bird flu in Hong Kong in 1997 and other
parts of Asia since then are an H5 type). The influenza
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus>virus was not understood by
medical science at the time. Most of the contemporary effort was
spent in an unsuccessful quest to find a vaccine to the supposed
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterium>bacterial cause of the
disease,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilus_influenzae>Bacillus
influenzae. In fact, this was only one of several causes of secondary
pneumonia associated with the pandemic. Two much milder influenza
pandemics followed the Spanish Flu: the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Flu>Asian Flu in
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957>1957, and the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Flu>Hong Kong Flu in
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968>1968."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Flu
The part about the "unsuccessful quest"...believable or not?
Who knows.
Would anyone admit to a vaccine they made being the cause?
stuff
At 09:43 PM 1/29/2006, you wrote:
i read an older report on this, and it should be in the archives (????)
that aspirin had just come out, and was used as a miracle medicine
on the wounded of WW1, and was used to break the fevers of the
infected wounded. they apparently had great success in breaking the
fever, but the fever causing infection would return, after a short
period, and the infection bloomed. then came the vacinations for the
"flu". if i recall correctly,doctors that treated all their
patients, but did not use the vaccines, lost very few patients.
i've been trying to get a lead on this information, and would
appreciate the name of the book. it seemed to be a composit report
on this book, and an attempt at correctly reporting the spread of
this "plague". all of this is from memory, and i hope it is correct.
thank you very much,
jim
Jim Holmes wrote:
Current research on that epidemic indicates it was mainly caused by
the vaccine.
