pandemic

The 1918 flu pandemic killed 100 million people.

There was a wide consensus that these viruses were a threat and might have the potential for a pandemic.

We could potentially be breeding a wordwide pandemic and not realize it.

They're at pandemic levels in NYC, and the more volume of people moving in/out of a place the more likely you are to get them.

The likelihood of any kind of pandemic is extremely low, sure.

If we can protect a colony from the environment of Mars, we should be able to keep at least that many people safe from a pandemic.

I hope the next time there is a preventable pandemic threat people don't trump up the anti-pharma rhetoric and say "last time it wasn't so bad, was it?

\n- interviewed authors of paper that used the phrase, "silent pandemic" when claiming widespread behavioural and cognitive problems as a result of 12 compounds.

Whether it becomes a pandemic is irrelevant: it's already devastating several countries in Africa and is likely to move to other underdeveloped nations if not kept in check.

But, much as the human immune system overreacting to an infection is the most common cause of death by H5N1, humanity's overreaction to a pandemic will likely be far more damaging than the pandemic itself.

Am I one of the minorities who believe that this hype about Ebola is more sensationalism and news than an actual pandemic we should be fearful for?Let's take a lot at what we can agree on:* The number of cases of infected patients is fairly small.

""Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients; in contrast the 1918 pandemic killed predominantly previously healthy young adults.

Moreover, we demonstrated that acquisition of only a few amino acid substitutions can confer respiratory droplet transmission to 1918-like avian influenza viruses in a ferret model, suggesting that the potential exists for a 1918- like pandemic virus to emerge at any time from the avian virus gene pool.