OT: I would avoid Mexico for the time being right now....

[Jason Weiser]

http://www.physorg.com/news159778101.html

First, a gang war in Northern Mexico...now this. I do hope it's just a case of the usual problems of containing an epidemic in the 3rd World, and not the replay of 1918 that the epidemiology crowd's been fearing for years.

[Nowhere Man 1966]

I know if my maternal grandmother was still alive, she would be going crazy. I remember the last time the Swine Flu was talked about in the late 1970's, she was so afraid of it. She passed away in 1997 and I remember talking to her younger cousin and she told us the story that her mother, my great grandmother died from the flu during the 1917/18 pandemic.

Chuck M.

[JimmyRay73]

I make it a general policy to avoid Mexico anyhow, but yeah this stuff is one more version of Moctezuma's revenge I think...

[Mohoender]

Let's be sarcastic a little as I have to say that a death rate equal to that of the black death (33% casualties worldwide) would ease things a bit.

On the down side and the first one is a big one:
- It would have a good chance to knock at your door.
- Food supply disruption because of worker casualties.
- Fair increase in violence from panicking and paranoied people.
- Increase in war risk just because we are more stupid than pigs (much more).

On the bright side:
- Reduction of population need for goods.
- Reduction of food requirement worldwide.
- No more economical crisis as this would be the least of our problems.
- Reduction of global warming (less industry and reduced number of people farting).
- Reduction in the need for elder care as elders should be the first to die (further reduction of global warming).

OK, I stop. It can remind us of the avian flu and there is no reason to be scared yet. Anyway, from what I know, most of our diseases are coming from domestic animals. As we have to do with them we have to do with it.

[pmulcahy11b]

Well, lets see...I live in San Antonio...they've already had five cases and closed Steele High School in Cibalo (just south of the county line from San Antonio)...they've one case in San Antonio on the south side...I live on the west side...BOHICA!

[Mohoender]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Well, lets see...I live in San Antonio...they've already had five cases and closed Steele High School in Cibalo (just south of the county line from San Antonio)...they've one case in San Antonio on the south side...I live on the west side...BOHICA!

The right question: how many death?