Scientists Suspect Mysterious ‘Russian Flu’ in 1889 Was a Coronavirus Outbreak

A strange pulmonary sickness first appeared in Russia in 1889 and subsequently propagated around the world, causing at least several outbreaks of infectious disease over all of the period of many decades. Numerous experts believe the sickness, called the Russian flu, was triggered by a disease outbreak coronavirus identical to SARS-CoV-2, the viral infection that tends to generate COVID-19.