The Number on the level associated with a Pandemic is NOT about the number of deaths but about the spread of disease.
When a virus goes to rapid human to human transmission as this one has, that is what is causing concern.
Plus the similarities to the 1918 Spanish Flu. NO-ONE knows exactly what this one will do yet.
It stands to reason, based upon what has happened in Mexico that it will become more deadly as it passes through the general population.
Personal Preparedness can’t hurt. We KNOW that the government is not the answer to all problems.
Brace yourselves, this could get alot uglier before it gets better.
The following is from a report from the WHO regarding Pandemic Phases.
The pandemic stage 6 may be marked by two or more waves. For example, the initial wave of the Spanish Influenza pandemic in the spring of 1918 was so mild in its effects that it received the dismissive nickname of the “three day flu.”
But when the second wave hit North America a few months later in the summer of 1918, it was lethal.
Apparently in the interim the novel H1N1 pandemic strain had added the gene or genes that made the final wave a killer.
Perhaps the effects of the lethal second wave would have been even more devastating if the innocuous first wave had not already passed through the population, leaving in its wake at least some immune response to the surface antigens presented by the H1N1 in both waves.
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