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Old 04-27-2009, 03:52 PM   #78
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Originally Posted by El-Ahrairah View Post
I don't understand the scare. 18 people have been evidentially killed by swine flu. 130 have, suspectedly - but maybe they just had pneumonia or super AIDS. That's about a millionth of the kids that die from hunger every day.
It's a newly mutated strain of the influenza virus which means no one on the planet has the antibodies already present to fight the virus, and no pharma company in the world has a working vaccine to distribute. It's likely no big deal, but the last time there was a real influenza outbreak, 50 million people died.
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