Re-Run: An October 1957 BBC Story About the Asian Flu Vaccine Has Some Familiar Elements
"China Virus" Throwback
I haven’t read much about the 1957 “Asian Flu” pandemic but a follower directed me to this BBC story from October 1st that year and, wow, does the plot sound familiar!
In the story (copied/pasted below) we have:
a strain of something “believed to have originated” in China in February 1957 before it began “sweeping around the world.”
the strain “reaching” t…