Article: Tips To Help Survive The Impeding Flu Pandemic
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Tips To Help Survive The Impeding Flu Pandemic
Flu pandemics occur with predictable regularity, generally about three per century. The last major one was in 1918 when approximately 50 million people died. There were two more of less serious magnitude in 1957 and 1968.
Today there is a new, extremely virulent strain of virus ermerging in Southeast Asia which is already responsible for killing dozens of people. So far those infected have contracted the illness directly from birds but health officials are concerned that if and when the virus mutates so that it can be passed from human to human it will lead to a worldwide pandemic far more severe than that of 1918.
Hope for the best, but plan for the worst...
Addressing the Pan American Health Organization?s (PAHO) 46th Directing Council meeting...
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