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Posted on 03/15/2011 11:05:20 AM PDT by neverdem
13 cases. 5+ years. Not the most virulent disease, eh?
And avian flu is known to be very deadly. And very hard to pass to humans - you basically have to sleep with chickens in your bed.
85% mortality rate ping!
Awesome! Now the TV has something lined up after the Japan crisis of 2011.
What kind of music is going to go best with this super killer??
I'm (sob!) doomed. You can have my ammo.
Hoo boy, I best quit doin' thet.
Almost as bad as Pol Pot. They’ll survive. Unless the communists reemerge (which never left).
In 5 billion years, it will have killed us all...
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Well, Don’t sleep with Chickens....as the post said...
multiple exposures to sick and dead poultry
If was Human to Human, one would be concerned.
the trick for a virus to go worldwide is the length of the contagious phrase and the level of infectiousness.
if it kills the host too quickly, then it has a lower probability to spread.
with the advent of airlines, the possibility of world wide contagion has dramatically increased. prior to airlines, the 30 days of travel would wipe out an entire ship... but would not make it to its destination.
airlines resolve this and magnify it... by keeping everyone in a single tube, in close quarters, breathing the same air (assuming air-born virus)... and the host doesn’t die before reaching the destination... thereby spreading the virus geometrically.
The good thing about a high mortality rate is that it becomes difficult for the disease to spread. If the pathogen kills off the host quickly, it isolates itself from other victims.
Pravda is often a good source for news we won’t see in the US MSM, but I also find Pravda to be quite sensationalist! Take what they say with some healthy skepticism.
Yet they hype it as a pandemic.
Leftist propaganda never rests.
The movie "Twelve Monkeys" with Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt is a strange movie and not to everyone's taste (but I like it). There is a bit in there about how airports can spread disease very effectively. I won't say more than that.
Bawk bawk BAWWWK!
Yes, but they don’t say anything about human-to-human spread of the virus. The cases mentioned where directly sick poultry-to-human contact.
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