nytimes.com — Last year, for the first time since avian flu emerged as a global threat, the number of human cases was down from the year before. As the illness receded, the scary headlines — with their warnings of a pandemic that could kill 150 million people — all but vanished.
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vertinoxJan 23, 2008
You will have to admit hygiene and human habits were quite different back then.
Closed AccountJan 24, 2008
Sites you should know. They even have RSS feeds.pandemicflu.gov/www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/country/cases_table_2008_01_23/en/index.html
alwilsonJan 24, 2008
Oh I see, you all think that since it hasn't happened (yet), that we have nothing to fear. The real issue is that fear of the Bird flu is not going to help you when it breaks out. It's going to kick humans asses big time if it's remotely as affective as the Spanish Flu was. The US was afraid of a nuclear war during the cold war and that didn't happen. Does that make it any less real?
luuletajaJan 24, 2008
the hsn1 is being found in the outskirts of calcutta at the moment, which means that 9 million people are in immediate danger if the vector should jump. well, its like joggling with dynamite on top of a gunpowder box. no matter how skillful, its gonna drop at one moment and you cannot quarantine 9 mil people.
mitchstriplingJan 28, 2008
Sure, a pandemic will be a big threat. But the media attention isn't helping people get prepared, It's just stirring up fear and helping us ignore other things that are killing people. It bummed me out, so I wrote a post about things killing more people than bird flu:<a class="user" href="http://www.crisisville.com/2008/01/i-know-whats-ki.html">http://www.crisisville.com/2008/01/i-know-whats-ki ...</a>