Environmental / Atmosphereic factors/causation explains breakouts in many people at once, in disconnected locations. For one example (not conclusively proven):
"influenza" full original name = "influenza della stella" which translates as "influence of the stars". Named that because after extensive observations (in around about 15th/16th centuries), the correlation with breakouts of the disease and solar activity (cloud cover, sun spots) was indentified as the best explanation as to why it occurred simultaneously in people in different places all at once.
Over 100 years of Rockefller funded "one pathogen, one cure" medicinal and microbiological research and captialism has suppressed any interest into exploring the environmental cause of outbreaks. It's not an easily profitable or controllable line of inquiry.
The differing volume of cosmic rays that penetrate into our atmosphere is affected by cloud cover and sunspots / solar activity, and so seems like it could be an answer.
Also it is said that solar activity affects volcanic activity, so there is another causal candidate; since volcanic activity pumps massive volumes of gas matter into the atmosphere, which could affect different populations in different places simultaneously as the atmosphere is circulated around the globe.
Then how does one “catch” the flu? Something akin to spontaneous combustion?
Environmental / Atmosphereic factors/causation explains breakouts in many people at once, in disconnected locations. For one example (not conclusively proven):
"influenza" full original name = "influenza della stella" which translates as "influence of the stars". Named that because after extensive observations (in around about 15th/16th centuries), the correlation with breakouts of the disease and solar activity (cloud cover, sun spots) was indentified as the best explanation as to why it occurred simultaneously in people in different places all at once.
Over 100 years of Rockefller funded "one pathogen, one cure" medicinal and microbiological research and captialism has suppressed any interest into exploring the environmental cause of outbreaks. It's not an easily profitable or controllable line of inquiry.
The differing volume of cosmic rays that penetrate into our atmosphere is affected by cloud cover and sunspots / solar activity, and so seems like it could be an answer.
Also it is said that solar activity affects volcanic activity, so there is another causal candidate; since volcanic activity pumps massive volumes of gas matter into the atmosphere, which could affect different populations in different places simultaneously as the atmosphere is circulated around the globe.
So close. Government has suppressed any interest.
Etymology checks out correctly. Not often I get surprised by an etymology. Don't know enough detail to comment on the OP main point.