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To: one_less who wrote (67421)	11/19/2004 3:30:05 PM
From: Henry Niman	Respond to of 89467

>>Yes. I would put death in the category of significant consequence.<< Actually, it is several notches above death. The hundreds of dead pigeons are causing panic in Thailand recombinomics.com leading to the closure of a couple of schools. However, the panic is over the pigeon deaths. The number of human deaths has been limited (one fatal case reported last month), but should the virus begin transmitting human to human, the SARS outbreak would look like a walk in the park. The panic would have worldwide consequences and the death toll could be significantly higher than 1918 (which was estimated to have been between 20-50 million in a population of about 1 billion). The case mortaility rate for the 2004 H5N1 in Asia is about 70-80% which is much higher than 1918.