I dont know what the news has been like in other countries, but here there has been a lot of scaremongering in the media about the next flu pandemic with speculation as to how many millions could die.
This is on top of ZERO news items of people with bird flu.
Plus different states buying huge quantities of vaccines.
Gets a bit suspicious to my mind
Then today I tuned in to a talk radio show where they were interviewing this guy about the above.......
In essence he stated that people in Vietnam were dying of bird 'flu. Not that many and it wasnt travelling fast nor was it easily transmitted. The fatality rate was 80% , unlike the 1918 Spanish flu which killed 18,000,000 people and had a fatality rate of 1% .
He then went on to say that it could easily combine with a more normal flu type which would give it the 'normal' transmittability rate [ie like wildfire] but the fatality rate would probably drop to 1-10%
OUCH !
Here's hoping the world has a lot of vaccines.
Why is the media saying so much about 'the next pandemic is late' and nothing about 'here it comes' ?
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