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Does it ever make you think how they can have a vaccine every season?

Why do these flu come out of Asia?

How many each year are effected in the Asia countries each season?

Is this a thing of nature or by design?

Health Officials Warn of Severe Flu Season

892 posted on 11/26/2003 4:18:36 PM PST by restornu
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To: restornu
It's all by design, and they're just guessing at what bug will get here, imo.

Many folks get the shot, and then get the flu.

Buyer, beware.
894 posted on 11/26/2003 4:27:20 PM PST by lodwick ( Wake up, America)
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To: restornu
Does it ever make you think how they can have a vaccine every season?

For the last 30 years the CDC has worked with the Chinese to isolate any new strains surfacing there and develop a new vaccine. No one wants to face the possibility of another Flu season like 1918 when 40 million people died.

Why do these flu come out of Asia?

Because it originated as a pig virus in China and there is a vast reservoir of variations on the virus still living there in pigs and poultry. Every year one or two manage to break out into the human population.

How many each year are effected in the Asia countries each season?

Not all that many. The outbreaks happen in backward rural areas without much population or population mobility. That's where the pigs are. As quickly as the CDC develops a vaccine process for the new variant, it is taught to every nation.

Is this a thing of nature or by design?

Think of it as Evolution in Action

So9

896 posted on 11/26/2003 4:41:08 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Effing the Ineffable.)
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