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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (2635)	10/13/2005 9:42:14 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4232

<It's very scary that you actually increase your chances of dying by striving to be healthy.> Not so. Healthy people are the ones who live. The old, sick and compromised are the ones who die. The argument that the healthy are more at risk is akin to the greenhouse effect worriers who say the cold, bad weather is yet another indication of greenhouse effect. It's the culture of pessimism. I can imagine that people suffering from, or just recovered from, a minor influenza, or reacting to a normal flu vaccination, might have reduced chances of dying from a H5N1 infection as their system, if not unduly compromised by the benign infection, is already geared up to resist H5N1, and other infections, quickly. But the idea that generally ill people would do better than the sickly sounds like nonsense to me. Perhaps I'm missing the point somehow. I doubt it. Where did you get the idea anyway? Mqurice