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September 26, 2009

Case Fatality Rates for Well-Known Diseases

It looks like Swine Flu is the most over-hyped disease in history. The WHO and other organizations can use this relatively harmless disease as research in tracking how viruses spread globally. And we can be thankful that this 'practice run' isn't too nasty. But the amount of air play and news this thing gets is crazy. My apologies for adding more bacon fat to the fire.

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Oct 27, 2009

Jason Theodor said...

What I failed to realize when I found this image was how 'viral' this Swine Flu virus really is. If it kills 0.5% of people who get it, but 90% of the population gets it, than it's going to kill a LOT more people than something like SARS, which affected a much smaller group. That actually IS scary.

There is only 2 degrees of separation between my family and the 13 year old who just died of Swine Flu in Toronto. When I was a kid no one died of the flu. No one. You got sick and then you got better. I can't imagine what that family is going through right now. I refuse to be alarmist, but I am going to get inoculated as soon as I am able.

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