Hong Kong Confirms First Human Case of Bird Flu
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Re: Hong Kong Confirms First Human Case of Bird Flu
#2With an estimated mortality around 30%, I wouldn't want to catch this bug.
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to spread human-human particularly well - yet.
Mortality source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H7N9#...
Transmitability source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H7N9#...
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#4Holy shit, it's happening...
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#5it's the usual flu season people, no need to fear this thing
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This is about bird flu, which is a virus, not bacteria, and has nothing to do with antibiotics.
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#8Google Flu trends (near real time updates):
http://www.google.org/flutrends/
How they do it: http://www.google.org/flutrends/about/how.html
Re: Hong Kong Confirms First Human Case of Bird Flu
#9For an chillingly realistic depiction of how a worldwide pandemic could unfold, I'd highly recommend watching the film Contagion (2011)[1]. For all those who complain governments and scientists overreacting to new flu strains, I would prefer that than the alternative - doing too little and being swamped by an uncontrollable virus.
Re: Hong Kong Confirms First Human Case of Bird Flu
#10Google Flu trends (near real time updates): http://www.google.org/flutrends/ How they do it: http://www.google.org/flutrends/about/how.html
Google's predictions of flu trends haven't been accurate recently: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/01/google-flu-trends-cdc