#1918flu — Public Fediverse posts

“Another mutation of a protein in the virus’s membrane improved its ability to bind to entry point receptors in human cells, making it more resilient and infectious.” #isogg #DNA #epigentics #1918Flu #geneadons #SpanishFlu
https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/spanish-flu-pandemic-origin-mystery-lungs-b2804212.html#

"Ewing predicts the strong desire to get past the pandemic will translate to a lack of commemoration or change, but Bristow tends towards optimism.

'No one has escaped completely unscathed,' she says. 'But will that make us more humane with one another, more caring of one another? My hope is that trauma that everyone has experienced at some level will make for a more robust reckoning in the aftermath than we saw in 1918.'"

http://archive.today/2024.02.05-040522/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-lessons-learned-from-1918-flu-fatigue-according-to-historians

Tfw Ewing was right 😔

#1918flu #pandemic #covid #covid19 #PublicHeath #CovidIsNotOver

Seht ihr nicht?

Na, da. Da ist er. Der einzige Maskenträger:

http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=4-4001726-1

#archivalien #digitalisat #1918flu #histodons

@aetiology

does anyone know of a good #phylogenetic paper that shows 2009, 1977, and 1918 flu?

i found one that shows #1977flu looking sus … but i want the full picture of #H1N1

#1918flu #2009flu

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Are you learning about #ImmunologicalImprinting in the context of debates about Covid booster strategies -- how often people at different risk levels should be boosted and with what mix of variants?

You might be interested in this piece in @TheConversationUS (by me and @martineiermann) about how #imprinting may have been the key to an odd puzzle about the #1918flu pandemic.

https://theconversation.com/1918-flu-pandemic-upended-long-standing-social-inequalities-at-least-for-a-time-new-study-finds-195718

@TheConversation_us

Crises like pandemics make inequalities worse -- right?

Let Martin Eiermann and I tell you about a surprising exception -- and a puzzle that might turn on an unusual collision of viral and social histories.

In @TheConversationUS

#1918 #1918flu #RacialDisparities #ImmunologicalImprinting #SocialHistory #pandemics #demography #sociology #influenza #migration

https://theconversation.com/1918-flu-pandemic-upended-long-standing-social-inequalities-at-least-for-a-time-new-study-finds-195718