Mq, If the number dead isn't cause for concern, check out the symptoms for 1918 compared to 2004:
From the bottom of page 45:
Symptoms in 1918 were so unusual that initially influenza was misdiagnosed as dengue, as cholera, as typhoid.
(The first reported human to human transmission of H5N1 in Thailand was initially diagnosed as dengue.
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The thousands of dead ducks that were just reported in Vietnam were diagnosed as cholera.
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Wrote one observer, "One of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach, and intestine. Bleeding from the ears and petechial hemorrhages in the skin also occurred." A German investigator recorded "hemorrhages occurring in different parts of the interior of the eye" with great frequency. An American pathologist noted: "Fifty case soft subconjunctival hemorrhage were counted. Twelve had true hemotosis, bright red blood with no admixture of mucus..Three cases had hemorrhage". The New York City Health Department's chief pathologist said "Cases with pain look and act like cases of Dengue..hemorrhage from nose or bronchi..peresis or paralysis of either cerebral or spinal origin..imparment of motion may be severe or mild, permanent or temporary..physical and mental depression. Intense and protracted prostration led to hysteria, melancholia, and insanity with suicidal intent."
(Chickens infected with H5N1 and been reported to have looked fine in the morning followed by all dead by noon with blood oozing from every orafice). |
