Scientist warns of deadly flu virus that could kill millions across the globe

Bristol Post ^

[BenLurkin]

Scientists are warning that a deadly flu virus could hit Britain which could kill millions across the globe.

Top scientist Dr Jonathan Quick, chairman of the Global Health Council, told The Mirror that the world is overdue a catastrophic flu virus, with bird flu being the most likely source of the new, deadly strain.

Dr Quick says that the flu virus is "the most diabolical, hardest-to-control, and fastest-spreading potential viral killer known to humankind."

And he warned that vital infrastructure including hospitals, and the global economy, could all collapse under the pressure caused by a pandemic.

He said: "The most likely culprit will be a new and unprecedentedly deadly mutation of the influenza virus. The conditions are right, it could happen tomorrow."

[Tax-chick]

Could, could, may, may. Wake me up when it does, if I’m not dead.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Women, children, and minorities hardest hit.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Same thoughts due to the rampant evil across the globe. I’m s this the disease they mentioned the other day, calling X since it could/would be so d devastating?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I saw that movie. Gwynneth Paltrow dies.

So... the feel good movie of the year?

[Popman]

The 1918 pandemic flu infected 500 million people worldwide and estimated killed between 30 to 40 million...

So lets not poo poo the idea so quickly.....

[null and void]

Figures you’d post that...

[P.O.E.]

Is this dated 2018 or 1918?

[KarlInOhio]

Top scientist Dr Jonathan Quick, chairman of the Global Health Council, told The Mirror that the world is overdue a catastrophic flu virus

So what is the schedule for global influenza pandemics? There was one a hundred years ago. Do viruses thrive on zeros in anniversary years so it will strike again this year? Or was that a once in a thousand year event so we still have a good 900 years to go?

Or is it like the crime/trial/flood/storm of the century which seems to happen every five or ten years?

[gigster]

They said that about the Zika Virus. Where did it go?

[so_real]

In an age when Bill Nye is a "scientific authority" instead of an "entertainer", there are 37+ genders, and global warming is the result of mankind rather than the nearest star ... I'm just not going to lose sleep over scientific warnings anymore.

[Mom MD]

or not.

[Flick Lives]

He said: “The most likely culprit will be a new and unprecedentedly deadly mutation of the influenza virus. The conditions are right, it could happen tomorrow.”

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..or not.

[LibWhacker]

Top scientist Dr Jonathan...

"Top scientist," eh? I thought would be journos stopped using that phrase after high school.

[Mastador1]

Meteors, Assteroids, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tsunamis, Global warming, Rising Oceans, Pandemics. Hell they're not even waiting anymore to have the disaster of the month scare!

[Mr. K]

or... it could not.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Well put. I always remember that the Globalists/Earth worshipers want a huge cut in the world population so the earth can be more sustainable. I put nothing past them.

i recall that the late Tom Clancy wrote a book on that very subject.

Interesting how Clancy often saw things that later became reality.

[Lazamataz]

Here's the problem, folks: Back when I worked at the CDC, the Ebola virus was scaring everyone. So I asked one of my peers in ID (Infectious Diseases). He laughed at my concern over Ebola. His response was, "That's not the one that should keep you up at night." Then he paused, and said, darkly: "The one that should give you nightmares is that China is weaponizing H1N9. That's got a 95% morbidity rate, 55% mortality."

All my hairs stood straight up.

He continued: "We keep pleading with them, please don't play with that one. They keep playing with it anyways."

[BenLurkin]

(The "Titanic" lady dies too)

[rlmorel]

Heh, as does “The Propellor Guy”...:)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Bird flu did me in back then. Now I’m a zombie.