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Alas, with so much of society being concerned only with "me" and the belief that nothing can ruin my current lifestyle, we are going to see a lot more of that customer's attitude. It's made worse by the fact that so few people alive today have any memory or direct connection with past occurrences and have an "if I can't see it I don't believe it..." attitude.

Here's an interesting excerpt from PBS...
By the early 1900's, many Americans had lulled themselves into thinking that the wonders of medical science could vanquish any foe, no matter how microscopic. For over a century, after all, the booming science of medicine had gone from one triumph to the next. Researchers had developed vaccines for diseases ranging from anthrax to smallpox. Great advances in microbiology had eliminated the mystery from once fatal diseases. When it turned out that influenza was confounding even the most brilliant medical minds of the time, fear set in, and along with it, suspicion.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/peopleevents/pandeAMEX88.html

A little more background is in order...
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/influenza-epidemic/
http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

Those who fail to learn from history are destined to relive it....
 
I had a dishwasher once .... but it made allot of noise ..... it ran hot & cold for no reason ..... soon I couldn't depend upon it .... so I divorced her.


...... :applause: :applause: :applause: :ernae:

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alot of folks are worried about h1n1 and flu virus'.

go to google and learn about filoviris, marburg virus, and ebola. see what they do to people and what they know about them. (very little)
see the survivability rate then compare it to swine flu.
ebola is what they call a "clean slate" virus. it kills everyone who it enters. read about how it liquefies their internal organs, nervous system and brain while they are still alive. while you are on your educational journey, think about this:

sooner or later some terrorist is going to realize that sending infected jihadists around the world in commercial airplanes would be far more an effective killer than the old "human bomb in the market place" trick.
before you lull yourself into a false sense of security that they don't let just anyone play with those kind of germs, think about this -
they don't yet even know which animal passes the virus to the monkees we get it from, or exactly where the virus lives. all it would take is another outbreak and one quick thinking terrorist willing to expose himself to the virus.
 
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