{"id":122647,"date":"2022-09-06T18:58:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T18:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/09\/06\/scientists-have-re-created-the-deadly-1918-flu-virus-why\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T18:58:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T18:58:43","slug":"scientists-have-re-created-the-deadly-1918-flu-virus-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/scientists-have-re-created-the-deadly-1918-flu-virus-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Re-Created the Deadly 1918 Flu Virus. Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the controversy about gain-of-function research and all the concerns about how dangerous it is, you might think that scientists have stopped doing that kind of work.<\/p>\n<p>Well, no.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest news, <a aria-label=\"a team of scientists in Canada and the U.S. report that they have re-created the 1918 influenza virus\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/jvi.00728-22\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/jvi.00728-22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/jvi.00728-22\">a team of scientists in Canada and the U.S. report that they have re-created the 1918 influenza virus<\/a> and used it to infect macaques. Let\u2019s be clear here: the 1918 flu vanished from the Earth, long ago. It\u2019s simply not a threat, or it least it wasn\u2019t, until someone figured out a way to bring it back.<\/p>\n<p>Why would anyone do this? I\u2019ll get to that, but first a little background.<\/p>\n<p><a aria-label=\"The 1918 flu pandemic\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_flu\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_flu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_flu\">The 1918 flu pandemic<\/a> was the worst plague since the Black Death, which occured in the mid-14<sup>th<\/sup> century. During World War I, a new flu virus swept the planet, killing upwards of 50 million people. It probably infected a third of the entire world population at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest news, a team of scientists in Canada and the U.S. report that they have re-created the 1918 influenza virus and used it to infect macaques. 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