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

To: JMarcus who wrote (3835)	6/2/2006 12:21:42 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 4232

That's not just "the explanation I offer"; it's common knowledge, and often repeated, and seems reasonable to me. Conditions of life in both the Army and Navy result in crowding together of large numbers of human beings in enclosed places even in summer time. Also, human beings are regularly transferred from one post to another in the armed forces, making it easier for persons carrying flu to come in contact with new victims. Crowding of troops in barracks and ships was even more close a hundred years ago than now. It is hardly surprising that the "Spanish flu" spread as quickly as it did through the armed forces. What in the world makes you think that there is any difference between how the less virulent flu viruses spread and the way that the more virulent ones spread? The difference is how serious the resulting disease is: how many people die.