This is what “open borders” is all about. It makes it easier to spread disease around the world. More people die. A reduction in global population. Sounds like the perfect commie plan.
I've seen better odds.
/johnny
The young nephew of our neighbor (and the neighbor is our childrens' Godmother and we know her well) is still in hospital, just transferred from intensive care. He has lost function of an eye and an arm and has other problems. We don't know if function is expected to return. He collapsed one day at home more or less out of the blue and was airlifted to a hospital about 150 miles away. It was reported to us early on that the infection was a "cold" virus. Cornavirus account for a significant portion of ordinary colds, along with rhinovirus. Neither, however, normally result in problems anything like this child has experienced and generally not much beyond the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems. So this is a real mystery. We are in the northwestern U.S. and no one involved has traveled to any of the countries where MERS has been reported. We don't know what it is or whether any similar cases have been reported.
I'm sure the family would be appreciative of prayers.
24 deaths out of 38 reported is over 60% mortality rate!
and we are not being given all the facts about the number of people affected, age/sex/prior health conditions, etc
spiffy
Two different strains if potential pandemic flu approaching us from east (H7N9 bird flu) and west (MERS), one H7N9 (30% fatal and potentially exacerbated in people who ever got vaccination against H1N1 flu in the past
and look at the govt we have to trust to tell us the truth the other, MERS 60% fatal, with no known treatment