Just look at the spike in the death rate in 1918 from flu!
Posted on 11/20/2004 10:29:20 AM PST by Ginifer
One percent of the ill would die. That would equate to 1/3rd of one percent of the world population. Say 20 million people world wide out of a population of six billion. Troublesome but nowhere near the 33% of the population than died during the plague in Europe.
I actually think I'm getting the flu. Crap.
Just look at the spike in the death rate in 1918 from flu!
If this happens, Social Security will not need to be reformed.
I agree with you. The countries really at risk are the third world countries. Like Mexico, Central & South American countries, Islamic countries and the like. Inshah Allah.
I've read that the Black Plague in Europe resulted in a rise in demand of workers & that wages went up, living standards went up and survivors actually benefited.
Jet planes.
Great. Another thing to worry about.
Well, if money is involved, and this is true, time for the smart investor to invest in casket companies and funeral homes.
He didn't have hemorrhagic fever, I was happy to find out.
About the best line Tom Clancy ever wrote was in Executive Orders when one of the medical characters was talking about funding for viral research. He pointed out that the movie "Outbreak" had a bigger budget than our funding on this type of stuff.
It will happen. It will also probably affect "emerging world" countries hardest, as they have the easy transportation but lack the sanitation and medical resources to deal with anything. Tourist countries could also be really bad.
Here we'll just suddently discover that we have the infrastructure to make telecommuting a VERY good idea.
Being crass and heartless I can always hope that, if it has to hit, it hits the Jihadi world with a vengance. Of course they'd accuse us of biological warfare. Since even Nobel Prize winners do that now, blaming us for creating AIDS to attack black people, what's the difference?
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Via WalMart! ;~)
The disease can spread from country to country through international trade in live poultry. Migratory birds, including wild waterfowl, sea birds, and shore birds, can carry the virus for long distances and have, in the past, been implicated in the international spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza. Migratory waterfowl – most notably wild ducks – are the natural reservoir of bird flu viruses, and these birds are also the most resistant to infection. They can carry the virus over great distances, and excrete it in their droppings, yet develop only mild and short-lived illness.
Domestic ducks, however, are susceptible to lethal infections, as are turkeys, geese, and several other species raised on commercial or backyard farms.
Right, and you can also purchase several species of migratory waterfowl droppings at WalMart.
Backhoes and front end loaders.
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world!
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once
That makes ingrateful man!
That's a harsh penalty for stealing two grapes. < :P
Everyone knows you don't jump out of a falling plane. You climb out on the wing. Then right before it hits the ground, you jump so you have a nice soft landing.
Shazzam, you just solved it. Issue everyone an Air Tight plastic bag and a rubber band to secure it around the neck, bingo, no one gets the flu! It's cheap and easy!
Yup. Hand washing would be a tremendous deterrent to an epidemic. I don't think kids are being taught to wash their hands much anymore. I'm a hermit and don't go out into crowds very often, and I'm constantly using my hand sanitizer stuff where ever I go.
I can't believe no one else has pointed this out already, but I firmly believe it's Bush's fault!
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