To: mdittmar
The 50% death rate for those contracting the flu was in reference to the new avian flu, not the Spanish flu of 1918. That rate is in modern hospitals. I would suspect many others
in third world countries never made it to the hospital.
18 posted on
02/22/2006 9:11:51 PM PST by
cpdiii
(roughneck (oil field trash and proud of it), geologist, pilot, pharmacist, full time iconoclast)
To: cpdiii
The 50% death rate for those contracting the flu was in reference to the new avian flu, not the Spanish flu of 1918.Ahh,my mistake,so What's your point?
19 posted on
02/22/2006 9:21:19 PM PST by
mdittmar
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