[lit-ideas] Re: flu vaccine
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:03:39 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
The 1918 pandemic started (those who have read this week's Newsweek will know
this) in Kansas City, in the U.S.A. in the same way SARS began in Asia:
proximity of people and animals. No question that that strain was uncommonly
virulent, but the war fanned the fire into a conflagration. Or so says
Newsweek. IMO Paul is right, there's a lot of scare stuff in here too. IMO
too, people love a catastrophe, until they get bored with it. This shortage
does say something about our ability to respond to a biological attack though.
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Hungerford <hh@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Oct 27, 2004 2:46 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: flu vaccine
The 1918 flu epidemic killed 675,000 Americans and at least 21 million
others worldwide. Estimates go up to 50 million.
In the First World War, a bit over 5 million soldiers died on both
sides, of whom 126,000 were Americans.
And Bill Ball is right: in general if you caught flu you simply died.
Harold Hungerford
On Oct 26, 2004, at 2:34 PM, William Ball wrote:
> One simply died. Rather, hundreds of thousands died around 1918.
>
> Many did not after the development of the vaccine, though now that
> friends of ours have deemed the production of same to be rather
> unprofitable, that figure may inch up a bit, especially for old fogies
> like myself at 75 who cannot get shot.
>
> Oh, hell, maybe they're right; I've hung around long enough.
>
>
> Here's to the cessation of this political haggling, come what may:
>
> Bill=20
>
>
> William Ball
> Norma Ball=20
>
>
>
>
> One really wonders what we ever did before flu vaccines.
>
> uncommonly eupeptic,
>
> Paul
>
> p.s. Does anyone wish to discuss the philosophical implications of
> "Team
>
> America: World Police"?
>
> I'll look at anything as long as no one expects any sense from my
> offerings.
>
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