Absolutely agreed.
Osterholm: "H5N1 is the most powerful influenza
virus we've seen in modern human history"
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And Osterholm's conclusions about proper planning responses are unsettling to those who wish to not think about this thing mutating:
From the article
**One thing is clear, however: In its present form, H5N1 has killed over half of the people it's infected. The great flu pandemic of 1918-19, by contrast, killed about 5 percent of its victims.**
According to the link below the death rate was 2.5%
http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/
Doubling the death rate from the 1918 Flu makes me question his other data. He's hyping.