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Re: swine fever.
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Originally Posted by Mancie
Fair enough jem...but if 125 have died so far in this world wide "pandemic" then in the same peroid of time more peple will have died from Malaria or AIDS...the last scare we had shoved on us was bird flu...in some reports we were told up to half the population of Britain would die!..before that it was SARS..I've forgotten what that was but they were closing down airports and walking around with face masks.. all over the top.
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I have to agree with Mancie on this one and can't help thinking that it is being blown out of all proportion. Flu viruses have existed and mutated since man began. Every year various strains of Influenza kill hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. The biggest killer in the world is still Malaria closely followed by AIDS related illnesses. Yes it is sad that people die of Flu but I am not going to waste my time worrying about this latest outbreak which, I feel, is being blown out of all proportion by the media coverage.
I was in Hong Kong shortly after SARS broke out. The world went into panic mode and very little came of it.
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