Virus Alert: Do you think this will be the next pandemic?
 

I don't know what you are thinking about this, the media are focusing on the Iraq conflict, but this could get serious:


Could this be the next "spanish flu"?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Mar13.html

"You're always worried when you can't find a diagnosis," Heymann said. "Is it a new agent that's showing for the first time in humans? Is it an agent we know but can't identify?"

Stephen Morse, an infectious-disease expert at Columbia University, said that the biggest concern is that the outbreaks are the beginning of a global flu epidemic.

"In the back of everyone's mind, of course, is the 1918-1919 Spanish flu. That's the fear," said Morse, referring to the most deadly global flu pandemic in history. Flu viruses historically have originated in Asia and spread, he said.

in the last month we have had 8 kids under the age of 10 die from the flu, two in my home town, one at my sisters kids school it was soo sad when they were showing the kids on the news and their families i couldnt hold back the tears they just kept streaming my youngest almsot died in nov from the flu Scary shit.

TOM

I understand, a lot of people die from the Flu every year, but this is a new virus and it's not in the United States.. .. Yet.

Yeah, there have been many people sick in school for multiple days in a week.

Maybe a milder strain of the flu is here?

The virus is still unknown. They don't know if it's the flu. And everyone affected is in very bad condition.