Story of a town in 1918......

[mzteris]

interesting reading, regardless of whether you accept or deny the threat of "bird flu".......

Monessen and the Spanish Influenza of 1918
I had a little bird
Its name was Enza.
I opened the window,
And in-flu-enza*

Monessen was lucky. It fared better than most communities during the terrible ordeal of the Spanish Influenza of 1918. The first officially reported death occurred in Monessen on September 27, and the quarantine was lifted in the community on November 26. During that time thousands of cases were reported, hundreds were admitted to the temporary hospitals, but officially only 226 people died. That is less by half of the 28% that was the national average.

-MORE- (particularly striking is the story of how quickly it spread)

http://www.telerama.com/~cass/influenza.html

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1. What You Should Know About Biological Warfare (1952)

http://www.archive.org/details/WhatYouS1952

(online video)

[mzteris]

2. interesting, but

I'm not sure why you posted it.

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3. tips for staying healthy...

Sorry if it was off topic, but I thought with the Bush effort to socially condition everyone to expect quarantines, and other stupid ideas of using the Army, duct-tape and other ineffective ways of controlling fear, disease, terrorism, I thought it was kind of interesting.

My bad.

[mzteris]

4. oh -

did you think I was perpetuating fear?

That wasn't my intent. I thought it was an interesting piece - as history. Did you read the part about the 10 year old girl taking care of her family? Wow.

The fact that bushco may be capitalizing on a possible threat is true. The fact that media is capitalizing on both of those is also true. However, the bottom line is -

there WILL be a pandemic. Maybe not this particular flu season and this particular virus. But then again, maybe so.

It will happen - sooner or later, ya know.

Scientists have been saying this for way more years than bushco has been in power.