Interesting Boston study just published, claiming that the travel restrictions after 9/11 caused a two week postponement in the peak of the 2001/2 influenze season.
Some lessons there.
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Yes, it's that time of year again. Time to get my flu shot.
An Icelandic Company, Ensímatækni hf., is claiming that penzim - an enzyme isolated from cod intestines - has strong antiviral properties and kills H5N1 influenze viruses in vitro
so what would a mild swine flu pandemic cost?
we get out the envelope...
best case is about 1% hit to GDP this year
so far on the swine 'flu we know:
it is a new type A influenze variant
probably essentially no one has immunity to it
I've said this many times before, but it's worth repeating again: whether it's an influenza pandemic, or 'just' annual influenza (which, in the U.S., kills double the number of people as HIV/AIDS), what actually does the killing is the secondary bacterial infection, not the virus.