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To: NOW who wrote (22037)11/19/2004 2:29:11 PM
From: bozwood  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
Viruses of Mass Destruction
The emergence of a pandemic flu virus is 'not only inevitable, but overdue.'
By John M. Barry

In 1918 a virus that normally infected birds exploded into the deadliest disease outbreak in human history. Symptoms of the so-called Spanish influenza were so violent that some victims broke ribs from coughing fits; others bled from the mouth, nose, ears, and eyes; still others turned such a dark blue that a physician confessed "it is hard to distinguish the colored men from the white." Half the dead were young adults. City after city ran out of coffins; many imitated Philadelphia's use of steam shovels to dig mass graves for bodies wrapped in winding sheets.
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