Perspective: Efforts to pinpoint early cases have been complicated, and in some cases compromised, by distractions and diversions
connected claims of the pandemic’s origin in Bukhara with public statements made by V.I. Pokotilo, a Russian ethno-nationalist, who blamed “dirty, unwholesome people, constantly attacked by disease through their want of cleanliness” for the origins of the epidemic.by H. Franklin Parsons repeated and thus seemed to confirm Heyfelder’s observations.
Parsons’s epidemic map implied that the illness was dormant for several months after emerging from Bukhara but before arriving in Tomsk in Siberia more than 1,000 miles away. Yet the same disease appeared just two weeks later in St. Petersburg, which meant it traveled an even greater distance — almost 2,000 miles — in far less time.While Parsons’s study seemed to validate Heyfelder’s claim, another British expert, Frank G.
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