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Biotech / Medical : Will there be an Influenza Pandemic in the winter 1998-99? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Bartlett who wrote (13)	11/6/1998 10:37:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19

A very comprehensive internet article on the flu: Detailed Overview of Influenza: The Flu - Facts, Prevention, and Treatment pharmacology.miningco.com Pandemics are the result of antigenic shifts and are associated with severe illness and significant mortality on a global scale. Within this century, at least five pandemics and numerous epidemics (regional outbreaks involving fewer people) have occurred. For example, antigenic shifts were evident in the 1957 outbreak known as the Asian flu, which affected huge numbers of people, and in the 1968 outbreak of the virulent Hong Kong strain. --MM