Do people know that the 1890 pandemic was likely caused by another coronavirus, OC43 (that was then novel?) Nowadays, no longer novel, it is one of the causes of the common cold. We're obviously not living in the OC43 pandemic since, and we won't live in a COVID pandemic forever.
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Or the age structure of severity? Or that another hCoV might be a candidate? (I should tweet more often—someone in the mentions may have found a lung specimen to test.)
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Just tying it here, too! (I had found the anosmia & loss of taste pretty striking as evidence of non-influenza since, as far as I know, that is not something we see in human influenza but now we know is an hCoV thing. But please someone find lung tissue).https://twitter.com/renegadenarwhal/status/1442532000678637572 …
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Hi. I have studied the outbreak and one of the most interesting aspects is that the Russian flu seemed to attack cats, dogs, and horses besides humans "Cats, particularly 'yard' cats, also began to sneeze and die, as did dogs, cage birds, and fowls" 1/3https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11639616/
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Here an older influenza outbreak from 1788: "On the arrival of the Frigate Rose at Portsmouth from Newfoundland .. all the dogs on board the vessel were seized with cough and catarrh, and shortly thereafter the whole ship's company sickened in a similar manner." Same strain? 2/3
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