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Nineteen-year-old US Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on 5 February 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died.disease surveillance at Fort Dix found another 13 cases among recruits who had been hospitalized for respiratory illness. Additional serumThe US government acted quickly. On 24 March 1976, President Gerald Ford announced a plan to"inoculate every man, woman, and child in the United States.
In an epidemiological twist, a new pandemic influenza virus did emerge, but it was not the anticipated H1N1 swine virus. Much to Palese's surprise, when they compared the spot pattern of the 1977 H1N1 Russian flu with a variety of other influenza viruses, this"new" virus was essentiallyResearchers were surprised to see the 'genetic fingerprint' for the 1977 H1N1 Russian flu strain closely matched that of an extinct influenza virus.
Influenza virologists around the world had for years been using freezers to store influenza virus strains, including some that had gone extinct in the wild. Fears of a new H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 1976 in the United States had prompted a worldwide Whatever the specific mechanism of the release, the combination of the detailed location and timing of the pandemic's origins and the stature of Chu and Palese as highly credible sources combine to make a strong case for an accidental release in China as the source of the Russian flu pandemic virus.
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