Africa: Some Believe the 1889 Russian Flu Pandemic Was Actually Caused By a Coronavirus - Here's Why That's Unlikely

[The Conversation Africa] COVID-19 was the first coronavirus pandemic. The original Sars virus from 2003 and the Mers virus that created a health emergency in South Korea in 2015 were both coronaviruses, but fortunately failed to turn into pandemics in the way that COVID did.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Tags: Africa Coronavirus Health and Medicine Science and Biotechnology Source Type: news