curl-6 on 13 April 2013
| nightsurge said: Is 11 deaths and 43 infections really a case to start throwing out "pandemic" alerts? Seriously? In a country as populated as China and they only have that many cases so far? The regular seasonal flu probably kills thousands more than that each year in China alone... I think our society/media/government use these things as scare tactics. Bird Flu, Swine Flu, all those major "pandemic" flus in the last 10 years have had no major outbreak or affect like our governments/media tried to make it out to be. |
There's no pandemic alert, just a warning that this bears keeping a close eye on. The number of deaths and infections isn't the problem, the problem is that the mortality rate seems very high, the virus is better suited to infecting people than other avian flus, and birds can carry it without appearing ill. It may very well never become a pandemic, but it's better to err on the side of caution with so much at stake.
What's the alternative, that we aren't informed of possible threats?
