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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (43085)	10/8/2005 6:25:22 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 110194

The way we accomplish the suggestion below, in our technological world is to create a vaccine. A vaccine adapts our immune system to the virus, rather than waiting for the virus to adapt to us. * * * * * * * * * * * * the Bird Flu virus, like the 1918 flu virus, is very deadly precisely because it is an avian virus, not yet well adapted to humans. so if you were playing one of those computer games where you can be king of the world, would it be utilitarian to quarantine several thousand people and expose them to the virus, so that a weaker, less lethal strain develops. would it be possible to contain pandemic casualties by a couple orders of magnitude by this method? * * * * * * * * * * * * The way the late Carlo Cipolla designed the WHO reporting system, samples of new diseases are rushed to labs, such as the CDC. These labs identify the pathogen and develop vaccines or treatment -- hopefully before the pathogen becomes too widespread. Epidemiology is a fascinating field with obvious applications in economics. Cipolla's class in "Economic Demographics - The History of Plague" was the most interesting class I ever took at U.C. Berkeley. I can't recall if this was the best text used in the class, but I recall the title. amazon.com .