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To: BearWash

"The World Health Organization and public health leaders have been warning for some time that the world may be on the verge of a pandemic, the first since 1968. Adding considerably to their concern is the fact that the strain they fear will trigger a pandemic, the H5N1 avian flu ravaging poultry flocks of Southeast Asia, is highly virulent."

Yes, I look back in abject horror at the cataclysmic pandemic of 1968. And, isn't virulence a virtual requirement for pandemics?

She's selling something.


17 posted on 08/18/2005 1:37:02 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yes, I look back in abject horror at the cataclysmic pandemic of 1968. And, isn't virulence a virtual requirement for pandemics?



: it is estimated that only 750,000 people died of the virus worldwide (34,000 people in the United States) during the two years (1968-1969) that it was active. It was therefore the least lethal pandemic in the 20th century.


22 posted on 08/18/2005 2:03:36 PM PDT by jec41 (Screaming Eagle)
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