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Originally posted by spellbound
This new flu has damaged pork farmers around the world.
It has freaked people out, and it is time to say NO.
Flu always takes out a lot of people. This one is no different.
Here in NZ, where there was a bit of panic - no-one has died.
even tho you can't get it from pork.
It has damaged the world,
JUST SAY NO!
A hallmark of the great 1918-10 influenza pandemic was the virus's ability to kill young adults and children. ....
The influenza virus was otherwise well protected by a tough protein-and-fat armor made of two layer sof viral enveloping: one layer was almost entirely composed of the human heart's nemesis, cholesterol. ....
The virus (1918 Flu) appears to have swept the world in three waves, over less than two years time, gaining virelence with each new assault.....
The appearance of the Fort Dix virus, dubbed A/Newjersey/H1N1 caused consideralbe anxiety inside the U.S. Public Health Service. "By every available scientific measure, the Shope strain was indistinushable from the 1918 strain, and also indisinguishable from the Fort Dix strain." ...
... influenza viruses unusually rich in neuraminidase proteins were more easily spread from person to person. ...
Several scientists argued that swine strains, in particular, appeared in 90-100 year cycles ...
... there had been a long spring-to-summer silence (of the flu) following the first flu outbreaks of 1918 - a silence that was followed in September by the greatest pandemic of the early twentieth century. "To decide not to do something, to decide to go on pause because the virus went on pause, " Osborn argued in long conference alls to fellow scientists, "would be utterly irresponsible." ....
Swine influenzas, Cox would later explain, were particularly worrisome because peigs were highly permissive hosts, capable of harboring influenzas froma wide range of animals, birds, and humans. Inside the swine, variuos influenza strains shared genes, and recombined, resulting in major antigen shifts. ...
Stated as certainties, rather than hypothetical conjectures, were the following points listed under the memo's heading "FACTS" : The virus found at Fort Dix is 'antigenically related to the influenza virus which has been implicated as the cause of the 1918-19 pandemic which killed 450,000 American people; every American undre the age of fifty 'is probably susceptible to this new strain"; severe flu epidemics occur at approximately ten year intervals." ....
... (1918) influenza deaths were usually produced not by the virus but secondarily by bacterial infections that took advantage of the weakened immune defenses of influenza-infected lunchs. Bacterial penumonia ...
... a minimum of 85 percent of high-risk populations would have to be vaccinated to ensure society's protection against an analogous epidemic ....
Originally posted by spellbound
Just say no the overlords..
Originally posted by spellbound
reply to post by FlyersFan
Just say no the overlords.
I do not know who thay are, but I know they are here.