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Old 04-27-2009, 09:13 AM  
slapass
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Originally Posted by GatorB View Post
Black death is not spanish flu nimrod. Black death happened 700 years ago and it killed so many because everyone was dirty and nasty and didn't eat right. So their immune systems were compromised. Under modern circumstances the black death would have killed maybe 10-20%.
This is not a spanish flu only topic. Yes we have better health and medicine now but it did happen once so in my opinion it could happen again. Africa has been devastated by AIDs in some areas. Some African tribes and villages actually have a way to deal with outbreaks in that they close off their communities. This was shown during the ebola outbreaks. But get a deadly fast acting virus into one of the major slums of the world and you will see some serious head counts.
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