Posted on 12/14/2004 11:15:37 AM PST by ex-Texan
World Health Organization: Bird Flu Pandemic Coming and Millions May Die !
U.S. Army Photo: Victims of 1918 Spanish Flu Which Killed Millions
WHO Urges Countries to Prepare Against Flu Pandemic Threat
MANILA : With up to 50 million people expected to die from the next influenza pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is to convene a meeting of international experts in Geneva next week to plan how best to meet the threat, it said in a statement Thursday.
Although it cannot predict when the next pandemic will strike, the WHO said the arrival of the avian influenza or "bird flu" virus, which is now widely entrenched in Asia, signals "the world has moved closer to the next pandemic."
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Estimates of the number of people expected to die from the next pandemic vary from two million to 50 million with between 20 percent and 50 percent of the world's population ultimately affected, the WHO said.
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I find your assessment very accurate from my experience with such characters. Sadly.
Sure appreciate your UNDERSTANDING. It is priceless in such a context of relentless assaults.
Will long remember it, brother.
THANKS TONS AND TONS.
LUB,
Hm.
Many years from now. if you are still positing the same such warnings and apocalyptic gloom, I will still be laughing, and if you consider my opinion "hostility" then you are simply projecting yourself. Hillbilly, indeed.
No, I don't detect a trace of hostility in your comments. We're just imagining it.
What drew you to FR? Most of us don't make fun of the predominant religious tradition in the United States. And why the hateful remark directed at the Jehovah's Witnesses, especially when you have one in the family?
I am very sorry if some sort of despicable experience happened to you connected to religion when you were a small child. Time heals all wounds but yours seems to be festering. It is never too late to seek counseling.
THX.
Much.
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