Did the Spanish flu really start because someone was burning poop?

[LostInAnomie]

Someone told me that today. They said a couple of guys were burning burning a bunch of manure and that is how it originally spread.

[Deja Q]

1. Well, that story sounds like a steaming pile...

but I doubt that's the reason FOR it... :7

[JVS]

3. Don't you mean a smoldering pile of ....?

[supernova]

2. No, spanish flu is a form of bird flu

I think. That's why everybody's so up in arms about bird flu now.

[tuvor]

4. Boy, do I feel dumb.

I thought the post said "Spanish Fly," which would be even more ridiculous.

:blush:

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. You are not alone...

...:blush:

I guess, it's what we expect. ;) :hi:

[tuvor]

9. Kind of a freudian slip?

Glad I'm not the only one! :)

[SofaKingLiberal]

12. Number three here.

:dunce:

[rucky]

5. Yep, and the poop is what attracted the Spanish Fly

why it makes people horny is a mystery best left unsolved

[LostInAnomie]

6. I heard dat!

Word!

[PassingFair]

8. I read an account of the 1918 influenza...

(I THINK it was 1918)...

And the theory was that it was a variation of swine flu.

From burning the corpses and effluvia of pigs.

[DBoon]

10. The had the burning pig manure story on the History Channel

supposedly it was right next to a camp with soldiers to be sent to WWI

[Maru Kitteh]

11. No silly - that was Spanish FLY, not flu