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  • Grapesoda
    So Fucking Banned
    • Jul 2003
    • 46238
    #1

    FYI: 1918 flu pandemic

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

    The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 ? December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.[1] It infected 500 million[2] people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them?three to five percent of the world's population[3]?making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.
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    • arock10
      Confirmed User
      • Jan 2006
      • 6217
      #2
      Uh ok.....
      Sup

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        • Ferus
          Bye - Left to do stuff
          • Feb 2013
          • 4108
          #3
          Originally posted by Grapesoda
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

          The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 ? December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.[1] It infected 500 million[2] people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them?three to five percent of the world's population[3]?making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.
          Because people like Wehateporn could not expose the illuminati back then, they got away with spreading the designer-flu to the entire globe.

          Thanks to wehateporn, this could never happen again

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            • SilentKnight
              Megan Fox's fluffer
              • Oct 2005
              • 24818
              #4
              Moral to the story - avoid 1918 when time travelin' in the DeLorean.

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                • Grapesoda
                  So Fucking Banned
                  • Jul 2003
                  • 46238
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Ferus
                  Because people like Wehateporn could not expose the illuminati back then, they got away with spreading the designer-flu to the entire globe.

                  Thanks to wehateporn, this could never happen again

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                    • Grapesoda
                      So Fucking Banned
                      • Jul 2003
                      • 46238
                      #6
                      Originally posted by arock10
                      Uh ok.....
                      World Health Organization researchers issued a dire new forecast for the Ebola epidemic Tuesday, one that sees 20,000 cases by November

                      Another important number is what?s called doubling time ? how long it takes the number of cases to double. This varies greatly from country to country; in Guinea it?s just under 16 days, in Liberia it?s nearly 23 days and in Sierra Leone it?s 30 days. That?s what leads to the projection of 20,000 cases by Nov. 2. ?The true case load, including suspected cases and undetected cases, will be higher still,? the WHO team wrote.

                      http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/20...la-projections

                      The Ebola outbreak, which probably started in Guinea in December last year, has already sickened at least 5843 people, according to the latest WHO figures?more than twice as many as all known previous outbreaks combined?and killed 2803. Epidemiologists expect the real numbers to be two or three times that, however, because only a fraction of cases is reported. And the spread of the disease keeps accelerating

                      A month ago, in its so-called Ebola Response Roadmap, WHO wrote that the number of cases ?could exceed 20,000 over the course of this emergency.? In the new model, it projects that number to be reached by 2 November, if the epidemic continues to grow unchecked.

                      If the virus continues to spread at the current rate, Liberia and Sierra Leone alone will have reported about 550,000 Ebola cases by 20 January, the authors write. But if the official numbers so far represent only 40% of the real burden?which many believe may well be the case?that would mean a total of 1.4 million Ebola cases in those two countries by 20 January

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                        • marcop
                          Confirmed User
                          • Nov 2005
                          • 4150
                          #7
                          If you're comparing the 1918 'Flu Pandemic with the current Ebola outbreak, I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. 'Flu is transmitted through the air, whereas Ebola is transmitted via bodily fluids; so it's much easier to transmit 'flu from person to person.

                          Which isn't to say the various governments of the world aren't going to fuck this up and end up killing millions of people.

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                            • DWB
                              Registered User
                              • Jul 2003
                              • 31779
                              #8
                              Originally posted by marcop
                              If you're comparing the 1918 'Flu Pandemic with the current Ebola outbreak, I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. 'Flu is transmitted through the air, whereas Ebola is transmitted via bodily fluids; so it's much easier to transmit 'flu from person to person.

                              Which isn't to say the various governments of the world aren't going to fuck this up and end up killing millions of people.
                              We can't compare something that peaked and ended with something that is just starting. Now Ebola is out of Africa, lets give it a year and see what happens. I don't think it will reach the Fly numbers, but then again, I would rather die from a horrible flu than painfully bleed out of every orifice in my body as I vomited to death.

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                                • wehateporn
                                  Promoting Debate on GFY
                                  • Apr 2007
                                  • 27176
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Ferus
                                  Because people like Wehateporn could not expose the illuminati back then, they got away with spreading the designer-flu to the entire globe.

                                  Thanks to wehateporn, this could never happen again
                                  Until they censor me on Internets

                                  THE SPANISH INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC OF 1918 WAS CAUSED BY VACCINATIONS

                                  http://www.whale.to/vaccine/sf1.html

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                                    • bagfull
                                      So Fucking Banned
                                      • Jul 2014
                                      • 809
                                      #10
                                      Jeuss will stop Ebola, just believe

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                                        • 420
                                          cuck
                                          • Mar 2003
                                          • 11571
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by bagfull
                                          Jeuss will stop Ebola, just believe
                                          Didn't his dad create ebola to test our faith?

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                                            • Grapesoda
                                              So Fucking Banned
                                              • Jul 2003
                                              • 46238
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by marcop
                                              If you're comparing the 1918 'Flu Pandemic with the current Ebola outbreak, I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. 'Flu is transmitted through the air, whereas Ebola is transmitted via bodily fluids; so it's much easier to transmit 'flu from person to person.

                                              Which isn't to say the various governments of the world aren't going to fuck this up and end up killing millions of people.
                                              even worse Marco. they had no idea how to limit the outbreak in 1918, which they certainly do now...most people have no idea this even happened and killed more people that WWI

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