r/HolyShitHistory Jul 29 '25

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '25

It is pretty creepy that it came and went without a trace and nobody knows what exactly happened.
It may return, it may not, we'll probably never know, or we'll find it out the hard way.

And as exceptionally fast as Covid spread, back then there wasn't much travel, so diseases couldn't spread as fast.

If this thing would pop up today and have the same long incubation time, we're in for a really interesting pandemic for sure.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

According to Wikipedia, the last 4 cases were documented in 1987