They say 60 people have died.
The flu has always killed lots of elderly people.
What are the ages of the people who died?
If it’s people who aren’t very old or young I’d worry more that this was a possible pandemic.
It’s killing people in their prime, 25 - 45, which is why the freak out.
I’ve read that CDC has Tamiflu at the ready, to try and contain the outbreak, which conflicts with the “too late to contain” remarks. I wonder if the right hand knows what the left hand is doing.
But, with the liklihood of poor Mexicans streaming north to be treated in US emergency rooms, I wonder how effective any attempt at containment could be.
Young people dying. And dna of virus is perplexing,,both avian and swine dna. CDC is alarmed,,
You are on the money it has all the traits of a cytokine storm.
For all who want to know more...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm
Also I finshed a few weeks ago a GREAT book called, “The Great Influenza”...it tells of how the United States in the late 1800s to early 1900 prior to the 1918 Pandemic how we had little or no research...how Juhns Hopkins was founded...who the leading researchers were...and how Woodrow Wilson and his PATHETIC poor leadership allowed the pandemic to travel around the world with his LACK of action.
I am not a person who enjoys history however this book was so fascinating on so many levels.
What the world will soon learn if this does become a pandemic on the same level as 1918...is that many people litterally got sick in the morning and died before evening.
Since 1918 we have learned much about the cytokine storm and how it doubles up with a virus of this type and can kill a healthy adult in a mtter of 8 to 12 hours.