BMJ further adds that lack of sustained human-to-human transmission suggests that
AH5N1 Avian virus does not currently have the capacity to cause a human pandemic.” at it was a hoax gets corroborated by the fact that the US created undue panic to help its drug industry. In a knee-jerk reaction, President Bush declared that in “US alone, anywhere from 200,000 (if lucky!) to 2 million people at worst would die from the bird fl u.” The US President ought to have known that AIDS kills 2.8 million people worldwide, and every year obesity kills 300,000 in the US alone.
Extrapolating from the past (1918-19 – ‘Spanish Flu’ – 250,000 deaths in the UK, 1957-58 – ‘Asian Flu’ – killed 33,000, & 1968-69 & ‘Hong Kong Flu’ – devoured nearly 30,000), it was believed that ‘Bird Flu’ was the pandemic waiting to happen. Of course we are not complaining about the fact that it didn’t! But using this fear psychosis to make money is nothing short of diabolical.
AH5N1 Avian virus does not currently have the capacity to cause a human pandemic.” at it was a hoax gets corroborated by the fact that the US created undue panic to help its drug industry. In a knee-jerk reaction, President Bush declared that in “US alone, anywhere from 200,000 (if lucky!) to 2 million people at worst would die from the bird fl u.” The US President ought to have known that AIDS kills 2.8 million people worldwide, and every year obesity kills 300,000 in the US alone.Extrapolating from the past (1918-19 – ‘Spanish Flu’ – 250,000 deaths in the UK, 1957-58 – ‘Asian Flu’ – killed 33,000, & 1968-69 & ‘Hong Kong Flu’ – devoured nearly 30,000), it was believed that ‘Bird Flu’ was the pandemic waiting to happen. Of course we are not complaining about the fact that it didn’t! But using this fear psychosis to make money is nothing short of diabolical.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007
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