Sunday, April 8, 2007

The Future Flu

  • In 1889 the Russian flu killed 1 million people.
  • 30 years later the 1918 Spanish Flu killed 40 million.
  • 40 years later the Asian Flu killed around 1.5 million.
  • Then just 10 years later around 1 million people died.

NOW, 40 years later..... we have the new pandemic emerging. 10000% increase in total cases in the last 4 years. This flu is evolving, with its most strongest version splitting up and progressing around the world. It already has 7 of the 10 amino acids that was in the 1918 virus. 1 more amino acid evolution will mean it will stick to your lung and not just bird lungs.

It is a virus evolving just as monkeys evolved into men. It will evolve for its own life. Bird viruses change to adapt into humans through pigs. The virus is currently sitting in pigs in Asia. Every month new more countries are combating this flu.

It is almost certain that something may happen in the next 3-8 years, as one single evolution of that 1 amino acid in any part of the world will mean a human pandemic that will equate to the bird pandemic going on. We must be aware and protected, alarmed but not over excited. It may be inevitable.

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