A March 2 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes several images of technological equipment developed in the last 150 years including radio, radar and satellite.
“Influenza is an electrical disease,” reads the text in the post. “Past pandemics followed after new electric rollouts, such as electric power lines, radio, radar, and satellite technology. That implies drastic and rapid changes in Earth’s electromagnetic field can cause illness.”
The post’s caption also states “the flu is not contagious. No flu has ever been contagious.”
The post garnered more than 70 likes in two weeks.
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Infectious disease experts say influenza, also known as "the flu," is a contagious viral respiratory infection of the nose, throat and lungs. A geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey said the technologies mentioned in the post were developed over decades, not years, and do not correlate with influenza outbreaks.
There is no truth to the post's claims, according to Dr. John Swartzberg, a clinical professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.
“Influenza is caused by a virus,” Swartzberg said. “We’ve known this now for a little less than a century. And we know that...
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