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It’s been rated a pandemic by the WHO, spreading faster than ever seen before due to air travel. Harms the youngest between 1 and 5 years old. The small number of elderly who lived through the 1918 flu pandemic seem to be immune. The virus nestles deep in the respiratory airways and causes pneumonia. Death rate 1 in 200 patients, 1 in 3 of population will be effected. This means 70,000 deaths in UK alone this fall which will cause further economic downturn, except for the drug companies, they will earn huge profits. Life just ain’t fair. [CDC report]
My earlier diaries on Swine Flu pandemic here, here, here and here.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
