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To: Night Trader who wrote (30623)	4/2/2003 7:55:58 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 74559

I've read that piece by Fumento every time a serious discussion of SARS gets started. I think he's wrong about the death rate from the Spanish Influenza outbreak in 1919. It wasn't 30% in the US, it was 3%-4%, like SARS, but there were no ventilators then. SARS has a 4% death rate for people on ventilators. US patients are getting ventilators, ribavarin and interferon, but what about the Third World? Or the Second World, for that matter? People who die of SARS have hemorrhages in their lungs. Ordinary influenza doesn't cause hemorrhages in the lungs. But then, ordinary influenza only kills .1%. "Don't panic" is good advice, but "don't worry" isn't.

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