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Uma Visão do Inferno¹
segunda-feira, outubro 17, 2005

Should we sound the alarm for a worldwide epidemic that might not occur? There is no choice with the avian flu emerging from Asia. Last week's disclosure that an Indonesian man tested positive for the bird flu that has already killed more than 50 people in Southeast Asia was just the latest chilling news about the disease. Should it develop certain genetic changes, international health experts warn, bird flu could spark a global pandemic, infecting as much of a quarter of the world's population and killing as many as 180 million to 360 million people - at least seven times the number of AIDS deaths, all within a matter of weeks. This is utterly different from ordinary flu, which kills between 1 million and 2 million people worldwide in a typical year. In the worst previous catastrophic pandemic, in 1918, more than 20 million died from the Spanish Flu. That's more than the number of people who died from the Black Death in the Middle Ages, and more people killed in 24 weeks than AIDS killed in 24 years.

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Publicado por Manuel 01:21:00    

1 Comment:

1. av said...
   10:55 da manhã, outubro 17, 2005  
   ainda gostava de entender como é que os bruxos adivinham que o vírus quando mutar para conseguir passar de homem a homem se vai manter com a virulencia. Até pode ficar de fácil contágio mas perder virulencia.
   
   se fosse fa de teorias conspiradoras, ou alguma coisa estao a esconder, ou ísto é uma grande broma!

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