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Truthfully, If you live in a country that has proper medical and clean running water I really dont think its a life or death panic situation in general. Yes its a nasty virus and yes people are dying of it. Its horrible.
But in general If you are a poor person with no access to medical, access to safe ways to rehydrate or education as to how to handle this it could be very very dangerous. Thats where most death tolls will occur when this pandemic gets out of control.
Thats how a potential pandemic will really wipe out a population.
Spread of AIDS in Africa and India is an example of this in play..
One of these days a horrible virus will come through and wipe out a huge sector of the population. Is swine flu that virus? Probably not. But we can treat it as such. And learn from it.
It will be intresting to see how this pandemic plays out and who is affected from it most if this indeed gets as bad as is feared.
Is the average GFYer going to die? Is it going to be as bad as the media makes it out to be? Probably not.
But is this to be taken serious from a public health perspective, yes. Very much so.
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