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To: taxesareforever
Four people die and the world is put on alert by the NYT. Will wonders never cease.

Four more. It does not seem like many, but overall in Egypt alone, the death rate is 44%. Not quite half the people who get this bug die from it.

It is not yet efficient at human to human transmission, although there have been small clusters of cases which appear to have been transmitted that way.

Migratory birds have spread the disease from Southeast Asia to Europe and Africa, millions of domestic fowl have been culled as a result of infections within the flocks, and wild birds have been found with low path H5N1 in the US.

If it becomes better at human to human transmission without losing virulence, the resulting pandemic could conceiveably kill 2+ Billion people worldwide, effectively collapse the world economy, and perhaps civillization as we know it.

Maybe that won't happen, but I think the situation bears watching.

27 posted on 01/05/2008 1:07:53 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Note that tagamet can prevent the death by “cytokine storm”. I have stocked up on the generic version.


34 posted on 01/05/2008 8:42:20 AM PST by darth
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