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Scientist warns of deadly flu virus that could kill millions across the globe
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Posted on 03/11/2018 4:55:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

A lot of “coulds” in that first sentence.


61 posted on 03/11/2018 8:37:56 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord

Thank you. Yes, he had that knack and many people wonder if that didn’t have something to do with his death. He certainly had some high-up sources.


62 posted on 03/11/2018 8:39:17 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: airborne

Nothing would further the NWO agenda than a pandemic.

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That’s right. I think they want the population down to about 500 million. Prince Charles is one of them. He said he’d like to come back in the next life as a virus.


63 posted on 03/11/2018 8:42:55 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: BenLurkin

Laurie Garrett wrote the book “ The Coming Plague”, I think in the 70’s or 80’s. Very interesting trip through history’s plagues and diseases. As man continues to populate and intermingle closely with animals, anything could pop up at any time. There are only 7 basic protein strands that could criss cross thus creating a minor cold or a deadly virus that could kill within an hour.


64 posted on 03/11/2018 8:44:01 PM PDT by jetson
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To: laplata

Wait....

I thought he wanted to be a tampon?


65 posted on 03/11/2018 8:52:06 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: BenLurkin

Have they manufactured one that they want to release? They keep going on about this just a little too much.


66 posted on 03/11/2018 8:58:51 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus. He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

You’re right. He’s a confused idiot.


67 posted on 03/11/2018 9:01:10 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Popman
It's not a joke...

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.

In the fall of 1918 the Great War in Europe was winding down and peace was on the horizon. The Americans had joined in the fight, bringing the Allies closer to victory against the Germans. Deep within the trenches these men lived through some of the most brutal conditions of life, which it seemed could not be any worse. Then, in pockets across the globe, something erupted that seemed as benign as the common cold. The influenza of that season, however, was far more than a cold. In the two years that this scourge ravaged the earth, a fifth of the world's population was infected. The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News). An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby). 1918 would go down as unforgettable year of suffering and death and yet of peace. As noted in the Journal of the American Medical Association final edition of 1918:

"The 1918 has gone: a year momentous as the termination of the most cruel war in the annals of the human race; a year which marked, the end at least for a time, of man's destruction of man; unfortunately a year in which developed a most fatal infectious disease causing the death of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Medical science for four and one-half years devoted itself to putting men on the firing line and keeping them there. Now it must turn with its whole might to combating the greatest enemy of all--infectious disease," (12/28/1918).

The effect of the influenza epidemic was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by 10 years. The influenza virus had a profound virulence, with a mortality rate at 2.5% compared to the previous influenza epidemics, which were less than 0.1%. The death rate for 15 to 34-year-olds of influenza and pneumonia were 20 times higher in 1918 than in previous years (Taubenberger). People were struck with illness on the street and died rapid deaths. One anectode shared of 1918 was of four women playing bridge together late into the night. Overnight, three of the women died from influenza (Hoagg). Others told stories of people on their way to work suddenly developing the flu and dying within hours (Henig). One physician writes that patients with seemingly ordinary influenza would rapidly "develop the most viscous type of pneumonia that has ever been seen" and later when cyanosis appeared in the patients, "it is simply a struggle for air until they suffocate," (Grist, 1979). Another physician recalls that the influenza patients "died struggling to clear their airways of a blood-tinged froth that sometimes gushed from their nose and mouth," (Starr, 1976). The physicians of the time were helpless against this powerful agent of influenza. In 1918 children would skip rope to the rhyme (Crawford):

I had a little bird, Its name was Enza. I opened the window, And in-flu-enza.

68 posted on 03/11/2018 9:42:47 PM PDT by Bayou City
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To: BenLurkin

Leftist hysteria


69 posted on 03/11/2018 10:05:10 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: BenLurkin

We have all got to go sometime. Christ is coming back one of these days.


70 posted on 03/11/2018 10:12:19 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
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To: BenLurkin

what if, what if, what if....


71 posted on 03/11/2018 10:50:34 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Re-open the insane asylums, stop drugging the kids.)
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To: BenLurkin

These type scientists are comparable to end time sages and propheciers who repeatedly proclaim a coming end to the world....and yet, nothing occurs.


72 posted on 03/11/2018 11:09:56 PM PDT by cranked
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To: rlmorel
the premise of a new deadly virus is not that far fetched...

we think we're doing good by washing our hands in the anti viral stuff all the time...

we seek antibiotics for sinus "infections" and sneezes...

what do we expect?...we're killing off our natural resistance...

I would just suggest that people get themselves into better health habits including eating healthy food and drink.....and pickle juice...

73 posted on 03/11/2018 11:16:58 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry
"...we think we're doing good by washing our hands in the anti viral stuff all the time..."

I work in health care, so I have to wash my hands constantly...in a hospital setting, this is essential. But in the outside world, this constant hand washing and use of cleansers is kind of weird to me, and I agree...I believe it is throwing things off in our immune systems. Hope it doesn't come back to bite us.

74 posted on 03/12/2018 4:20:57 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: rlmorel
We do have a degree of arrogance with respect to communicable diseases,

Look how fast the norovirus can sweep thru a cruise ship..........

75 posted on 03/12/2018 4:25:42 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: BenLurkin

Its just a matter of time before some lunatic with some knowledge thinks he/she is God creates a killer bug and lets it loose on society killing billions. Reminds me of a book/movie...


76 posted on 03/12/2018 4:28:52 AM PDT by VastRWCon (LARGE PRINT GIVE IT, small print take it away.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“””””””””””...we think we’re doing good by washing our hands in the anti viral stuff all the time...”

I work in health care, so I have to wash my hands constantly...in a hospital setting, this is essential. But in the outside world, this constant hand washing and use of cleansers is kind of weird to me, and I agree...I believe it is throwing things off in our immune systems. Hope it doesn’t come back to bite us. “”””””””””

10-4 on that. I see so many people with their little bottles of Purell wherever they go. I’m in construction. never wash my hands during the day. Lunchtime comes and I’m eating a sammich with dirty hands every day. 60 years old, never had a flu shot, never get sick. Good clean dirt is healthy for you.


77 posted on 03/12/2018 4:37:53 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Hot Tabasco

No kidding. I went on a cruise last year, and I will tell you, I did wash my hands constantly.

THAT is self preservation!


78 posted on 03/12/2018 4:41:45 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: shelterguy
I believe it is throwing things off in our immune systems.

I once read an article that suggested that kids who lived in a clean environment and never got dirty were more prone to contracting polio since they didn't have sufficient antibodies built up that normally comes with getting outside and getting dirty

79 posted on 03/12/2018 5:25:06 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: shelterguy

Thank you. Purgatory isn’t too bad...


80 posted on 03/13/2018 3:01:18 PM PDT by EEGator
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