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If it is anything like the flu virus of 1918 we'll be in trouble.
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By then the sickness had spread to the far corners of the planet, from the South Pacific to the Arctic. "Everybody on Earth breathed in the virus, and half of them got sick," says Jeffery Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Maryland, who is trying to learn what made it such a killer. More than 50 million people died—at least three times as many as in the war. The best medical minds of the day could hardly believe that this was flu.
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The other difference is that the 1918 variety killed just 1 in 20 who were infected.
This current strain is killing 3 out of 4 infected.
Still, it hasn't made the true jump to humans yet and maybe never will.
I've also read that our government is stockpiling 15 million doses of an effective anti-viral that should stop the thing in its tracks and protect most of the population. The US is only stockpiling 3 million doses.
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By then the sickness had spread to the far corners of the planet, from the South Pacific to the Arctic. "Everybody on Earth breathed in the virus, and half of them got sick," says Jeffery Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Maryland, who is trying to learn what made it such a killer. More than 50 million people died—at least three times as many as in the war. The best medical minds of the day could hardly believe that this was flu.
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The other difference is that the 1918 variety killed just 1 in 20 who were infected.
This current strain is killing 3 out of 4 infected.
Still, it hasn't made the true jump to humans yet and maybe never will.
I've also read that our government is stockpiling 15 million doses of an effective anti-viral that should stop the thing in its tracks and protect most of the population. The US is only stockpiling 3 million doses.
joe
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kendor said:
Good point actually Kendor.
Imagine the scene one old Bobby with his Smith+Weston .38---range 50 yards and confrunted with 20 flu victims dripping with snot and sneezing virus infected flem all over the place. Like a scene fro a Zombie film.
If i was him i would leg it
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Freddie said:kendor said:
Good point actually Kendor.
Imagine the scene one old Bobby with his Smith+Weston .38---range 50 yards and confrunted with 20 flu victims dripping with snot and sneezing virus infected flem all over the place. Like a scene fro a Zombie film.
If i was him i would leg it
You forgot the machine pistols in snot covered fingers .. Too bludy right leg it in the 149 mph Vectra...
cheers Freddie i was eating my lunch as i read thatFreddie said:kendor said:
Good point actually Kendor.
Imagine the scene one old Bobby with his Smith+Weston .38---range 50 yards and confrunted with 20 flu victims dripping with snot and sneezing virus infected flem all over the place. Like a scene fro a Zombie film.
If i was him i would leg it
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