Reply #27: Really? [View All]

[Bridget Burke]

It struck with amazing speed, often killing its victims within just hours of the first signs of infection. So fast did the 1918 strain overwhelm the body's natural defenses, that the usual cause of death in influenza patients---a secondary infection of lethal pneumonia---oftentimes never had a chance to establish itself. Instead, the virus caused an uncontrollable hemorrhaging that filled the lungs, and patients would drown in their own body fluids.

www.ninthday.com/spanish_flu.htm

Living in a city with a great Medical Center--where hospitals can be put on "drive by" status during a bad cold season--I lack your confidence in today's medical care. The system can be overwhelmed. Of course, the poor all over the world will suffer the worst.