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Originally Posted by chadglni
Along with the other diseases that were going to doom us all. Been a few coming for decades now!
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SARS had the potential to be catastrophic. But it lacked something very important : It wasn't contagious. (You had to be in close contact for a long period of time with a sick person)
Flu is a different thing. You're infected? You will infect 8 other people.. and so on..
Flu pandemic isn't science fiction or media hype. We had 3 pandemics in the last century. A new flu virus dangerous to the humans appear every 25 to 40 years. It's a cycle. The last one was in 1969 (A mild pandemic, less than 1 million people died). My uncle, was 16, died from that one (The Hong Kong Flu).
We're overdue for a new flu pandemic. Could it be H5N1? Who knows..