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http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/10/28/pandemic.shtml“Up to one billion people could die around the whole world in six months,” Lvov said. The expert did not give a timeframe for the epidemic, but said that it is highly probable that it will start this year. “We are half a step away from a worldwide pandemic catastrophe,” the academic said.
Others are more optimistic:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041117.wpan1117/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/Between a quarter and a third of the world's population will fall ill, according to new World Health Organization estimates, and 1 per cent of the sick will die.
Do the math and the numbers defy credulity; between 16 million and 21 million people would die in a matter of mere months.
Not that I understand how they get these optimistic number since avian flu has had a fatality of about 70% of those infected.
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