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The flu is typically transmitted through respiratory droplets, and an animal bite is unlikely to infect a scientist. But with a virus as devastating as 1918 flu, scientists are not supposed to take any chances. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 1, 2022

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The Friday afternoon before Labor Day in 2011, a researcher at @MountSinaiNYC was in a Manhattan lab when a ferret — inoculated with 1918 influenza — bit hard enough to pierce through two pairs of gloves, breaking the skin of his thumb. https://t.co/7qMfmuGJWx — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 1, 2022

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The researcher squeezed blood out of the wound, washed it with an ethanol solution, showered, and left the lab. A doctor gave him a flu shot and prescribed him Tamiflu. Then, after checking that he lived alone, a Mount Sinai administrator sent him home to quarantine for a week. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 1, 2022