The swine flu situation

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>The Spanish flu in 1918-1919 was similar to the swine flu in that it attacked and killed otherwise young and healthy individuals. That is a problem; even though something like 40,000 Americans are killed every year by influenza, they are from the typical “susceptible to illness” demographic of the extremely old, extremely young or extremely unhealthy.</p>

<p>I am a little taken aback by how quickly this has all inflated to “near pandemic,” but if it prevents it from becoming a pandemic I’m more than willing to let them get this done with.</p>

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<p>Undecided, I find your argument to be entirely too extreme.</p>

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<p>On the contrary, I don’t think it was nearly as extreme as it deserved to be.</p>

<p>Far too few x’s and exclamation points. </p>

<p>But I thought it best to be civilized.</p>