Hum,
i watched a
Horizon program last night about bird flu.
One thing i noticed in the program was that the anti viral drugs that we have now won't actually do anything. Once bird flu gets into the general environment and can't be contained; the drugs will just delay the peak, and just as many people will eventually die.
Also...
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Circumstantial evidence links Spanish flu and encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness
Both pandemics were globally distributed and closely related in time. Local, regional, and national epidemics of Spanish flu preceded "similar sized" outbreaks of encephalitis lethargica. Deaths were greatest in the 20- to 40-year age groups for Spanish flu and in the 20- to 50-years for sleeping sickness.
A large number of victims of encephalitis lethargica had had influenza in 1918.
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