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To: energyplay who wrote (61013)	3/14/2005 3:46:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<where some Russian expert say Avian flu could kill 1 Billion people > It all depends on the response people make. If we get a vaccination in a year, the numbers killed might be not even 1%. But if we get a full-fledged good old plague, as in Europe where a third of the population were killed over a few years, there could easily be 2 billion of us killed. Or even 4 billion if we all get a dose and the 75% mortality rate holds. This has got serious possibilities of dramatically reducing sales of CDMA devices and QUALCOMM profits. This is not a good situation. A vaccine would be good. Mqurice

To: energyplay who wrote (61013)	3/14/2005 3:58:22 PM
From: redfish	Respond to of 74559

A UK expert opined that 1 in 30 people in the UK would be killed by it, so he is not quite so dire as the Russian guy. Still a horrifying possibility. Pandemic scares almost always turn out to be illusory, but this one has me a bit worried.