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**DaleJrGirl** · 04-27-2009, 05:03 PM

IT IS THE FLU!

This is not Malaria, or smallpox, or Polio.

That's the common [and dangerous] perception.

Read about the 1918 -1920 Spanish Flu pandemic. It killed so many people so quickly that no one knows even an approximate number. So the estimates are 50 to 100 million dead.

All of today's flu virus strains are descendant of the virulent 1918 virus. All it would take is a mutation for a similar pandemic.

04-27-2009, 05:03 PM	#11
DaleJrGirl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 426 Senior Member	IT IS THE FLU! This is not Malaria, or smallpox, or Polio. That's the common [and dangerous] perception. Read about the 1918 -1920 Spanish Flu pandemic. It killed so many people so quickly that no one knows even an approximate number. So the estimates are 50 to 100 million dead. All of today's flu virus strains are descendant of the virulent 1918 virus. All it would take is a mutation for a similar pandemic.
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