### What bothers me about this "scare" is that they'll say how many people died from the bird flu, but don't say how many survived it.
search search... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1 H5N1 As of November 1, 2005, 122 cases of human infection, resulting in 62 deaths, have been confirmed outside of China (see Human cases). Thirteen countries across Asia and Europe have been affected. In August 2005, scientists said they had successfully tested in people a vaccine that they believe can protect against the strain of avian influenza that is spreading in birds through Asia and Russia [2]. Fatality rate: 50.8% What concerns health researchers now is that the virus mortality rate in Vietnam has dropped significantly lately, from more than 65% to about 35% in a year. Because the virus is more likely to survive along with the patients in this scenario, it means that the virus could infect a larger number of people, and possibly develop into a global pandemic with millions of deaths despite the lower reported percentage of deaths. For example, the mortality rate of 1918 Spanish flu (H1N1) pandemic was less than 5% [7] yet killed more people than World War I. ### Looks pretty bad. Poultry workers aren't generally the young and weak. Of course, if it does mutate into an easily transmitted strain, who's to say how survivable it will be then? ..could become known to history as "The Great Winged Death", or, "The Scarecrow Sneezes". Ode -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6 - Release Date: 10/31/2005 -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
