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To: blam

Sorry - I've been spending a lot of time on FluWiki and CurEvents the last few days.

CFR is Case Fatality Rate, the percentage of deaths of those who contract a disease. There is another term for what percentage of the population contracts a disease, can't remember that term.

Many people are assuming that the CFR will reduce tremendously if/when H5N1 is easily transmissable H2H, but others disagree. It's all pretty much either informed or ill-informed speculation from what I can tell. But I'm an uneducated less than layman.

I'd rather not get it than hope that I'll be one of the ones that doesn't die. And even the survivors of the 1918 flu often suffered from all kinds of health problems afterwards.

Another detail I just remembered is that apparently the attendees were told that Tamiflu does jack.


47 posted on 11/16/2006 8:22:26 PM PST by little jeremiah (Jesus' message is not "BUY MORE STUFF"!)
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To: little jeremiah
"CFR is Case Fatality Rate, the percentage of deaths of those who contract a disease. There is another term for what percentage of the population contracts a disease, can't remember that term. "

Okay. Thanks.

49 posted on 11/16/2006 8:27:50 PM PST by blam
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