Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

Despite his dramatizations, many of those were risks that were thwarted.

Salmonella and E.Coli are food related issues that have gotten better as our standards for food preperation and cooking have gotten better. I don't know why he'd even list these. People get sick and even die from them all the time.

A lot of the others were things that had the potential to be serious pandemics. If a strain mutated into something deadlier, or became air-borne. None of his dramatizations come close to what public officials had ever said about those things. No one said heads were going to fry or everyone was going to die. The effects of quarantines, anti-virals, and other preventative measures helped curb what could have been a major pandemic. Sure the media has blown things out of proportion, but I don't think the organizations involved have. Heck, I'd much rather be safe than sorry when it comes to issues like this.

But hey, who are these world renowned doctors to argue with a pharmacist selling an e-book.