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Originally Posted by NikKay
That's like saying we should cut off travel to and from North America. Africa is a continent, not a country.
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With the virus thats coming out of there I would say that it no longer matters.
And for some reason countries keep taking people out of Africa that are already infected.
Look at it this way:
" The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 ? December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.[1] It infected 500 million[2] people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them?three to five percent of the world's population[3]?making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.[2][4][5][6]
Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients; in contrast the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults. Modern research, using virus taken from the bodies of frozen victims, has concluded that the virus kills through a cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system). The strong immune reactions of young adults ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths among those groups.[7]
Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the pandemic's geographic origin.[2] It was implicated in the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s.[8]
To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States;[9][10] but papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII), creating a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit[11]?thus the pandemic's nickname Spanish flu.[12] "
And that last paragraph is scary.