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FORGET ABOUT TERRORISM, HERE'S SOMETHING TO REALLY WORRY ABOUT ABC, AUSTRALIA - MARK COLVIN: The World Health Organisation has issued a dire prediction that the bird flu virus could kill up to 100 million people around the world. It's a significant rise in the agency's estimates of the number of deaths that could result if bird flu were to mutate into an uncontrollable form of human influenza. Yet there are others who believe the WHO's numbers are still a staggering underestimate. South East Asia Correspondent Peter Lloyd reports. http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1254963.htm PETER CORDINGLEY: WHO's thinking is that if this pandemic does take place, there will be at least two million to seven million dead people. That's a cautious number that we get from a reliable American institution. There are others who are no less reliable who look at world populations. They look at globalisation, they look at the pathogenicity of this virus, and they have estimated up to 100 million. That's not a number we're using, but it's a number that's in that back of our minds. PETER CORDINGLEY: ....This virus quite clearly, as far as we know at this stage, kills most people that it infects. ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO================================================== 4 Portals - 2 News Wikis - 2 Conferences -- No BuSHIT! It all starts here: - http://pnews.org/ (Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ============================================================== RHETORIC/PNEWS-L Subscription/Unsub information: http://pnews.org/signup.shtml - ALL LINKS: http://pnews.org/ ==============================================================
