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**exschke** · 09-21-2012, 11:15 PM

50,000 sounds high enough but I was surprised to hear at BBC the other day that Britain has as many as 25,000 deaths a year from "normal" influenza as well.
similarly, in the end SARS was found to have the same mortality rate as average pneumonia - out of 1500 infections, there were about 150 fatalities in Taiwan if I remember correctly. still 150 too many, but.... that's also the daily number of road accidents casualties there, and nobody quarantines entire cities because of that.

09-21-2012, 11:15 PM	#9
exschke Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 546 Senior Member	50,000 sounds high enough but I was surprised to hear at BBC the other day that Britain has as many as 25,000 deaths a year from "normal" influenza as well. similarly, in the end SARS was found to have the same mortality rate as average pneumonia - out of 1500 infections, there were about 150 fatalities in Taiwan if I remember correctly. still 150 too many, but.... that's also the daily number of road accidents casualties there, and nobody quarantines entire cities because of that.
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