To: mdittmar
The death rate is about 50% with good medical care. If it mutates and becomes contagious in a human to human vector it will be pandemic of epic proportions. When and if it makes this mutation it may lose some of its pathogenicity. That would be good. However, in the Spanish Flu epidemic it did not lose it and it killed millions.
16 posted on
02/22/2006 8:30:29 PM PST by
cpdiii
(roughneck (oil field trash and proud of it), geologist, pilot, pharmacist, full time iconoclast)
To: cpdiii
Spanish Flu?,1918?,you just made my point,smoke more,bleeding,iron tonics,quinine tablets,don't forget enemas.
This ain't 1918 anymore.
17 posted on
02/22/2006 8:53:50 PM PST by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
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