This is if anything, this is an interesting read http://www.amazon.com/Great-Influenza-Deadliest-Plague-History/dp/0670894737
When these types of epidemics come along they are not unlike a great tsunami or major hurricane sans mother nature. They are sudden and often without warning. Essentially, there is one major problem most people face and that is the fear of death. Pre reconciliation of death, including ones own, is a part of life. "the mark of civilization is the way it treats its' young, feeble, and aged. You would let everyone die but the fit, healthy, lucky ones." Contrary to what you think mother nature plays by different rules, keeps a her own score card and makes her own mark. By all accounts, it was the most fit and healthy that were mortally stuck down by the 1918 plague. The very young, feeble and aged for the most part, survived. It was those with the most efficient immune systems that rallied the greatest physiological response to the virus which resulted in the immune system over reacting. One of the supposedly huge mistakes doctors made were attempts to eliminate the fevers, which we know now, is the bodies natural immune response. Interesting as well, to this day, the first thing most people do at sign of a fever, is to run for an aspirin or other such suppressents. All scrambled attempts at vaccination failed at that time. To think that science will have the exact code, thus the viral antidote in advance to any new viral strain that causes such a plague would be akin to lottery odds. Ordinary, garden variety vaccines, especially flu, are not very different. Regards, Carol Ann ~ The only thing that is different is how you think.. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
