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Posted: May 07 2009 at 8:06pm |
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"When the Spanish flu started in 1918 it was a relatively wimpy virus. Then it heated up," killing 40 million people, Osterhaus told the Journal. "I wouldn't be too comfortable that this swine flu virus isn't hot yet."
It's mild now.... and they have no idea yet what catagory ...
At least we are not unaware.
We have had Pandemics before with No Social Unrest.
In 1929-1930......There was a Pandemic of Porcine A/SW/31 In 1947.......... there was a Pandemic of A/FM/1/47/H1N1 In 1957.............there was a Pandemic of A/SING/1/57/H2N2 In 1968-1969..... there was a Pandemic of A/HK/1/68 / H3N2 In 1976 ............there was a limited epidemic of (porcine) SWh1n1 In 1977.............there was a Pandemic A/USSR/90/77/ H1N1 The data demonstrate that the A/USSR/90/77 strain is a recombinant virus.
(look for this strain again...) source http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:qcYW3CW2C4UJ:ist.inserm.fr/BASIS/elgis/fqmr/rapp/DDD/27.pdf+sw H1N1&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us .............................. |
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I think the worry is that, while you're right in saying we've had pandemics before without social unrest, we've never had a major pandemic in a modern society like ours which operates on the just in time system for just about everything. In the event that the stores became empty, the lights went out, fresh potable water was no longer available at the turn of a faucet, and hospitals became completely overwhelmed, I think we could expect things to get pretty unpleasant for a while.
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