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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (198354)4/27/2009 7:45:19 AM
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The difference between a pandemic and normal flu isn't the death rate, as you rightly noted. The difference with a pandemic is that it spreads very fast and the medical community can't do anything beyond anti-virals, usually because the problem just migrated from animals to humans.

In a particularly deadly pandemic, your health has almost no bearing on whether you survive. Regular flu typically takes out the extremely young, the old, and the infirm. When the Spanish Flu hit the West Coast at the end of WWI, otherwise healthy people were dropping like flies.

This pandemic doesn't seem to be an unusual problem, at least not at the moment. It is good practice for the medical communities to see how prepared they are for the real thing, which will eventually happen. We are overdue.
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