Reminder that the most deadly pathogen in human history, the Spanish flu, was leaked from a human lab in the 1970s. It had previously been wiped out. Now you know it as influenza A subtype H1N1, an endemic disease in humans.https://twitter.com/diviacaroline/status/1252813408769990656 …
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Any errors in this thread were my own, except my source did call the spanish flu / H1N1 "the worst pathogen in human history" at one point. This is perhaps an overstatement, but "worst in the 20th century" or "one of the worst in human history" does seem fair.
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Anyway, point is: accidental releases of deadly pathogen from research labs - more likely than you think.
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