swine flu vaccine..would you have it?

[KeithD]

I'm not scaremongering but one day something is going to cull the population to greater or lesser degree whether we like it or not :(

Jim

That'll be famine and war that does that, no single virus can effect a complete population enough to decimate the world now due to the huge genetic diversity of the human race. Some folk are naturally immune to Aids, and after 20 years science has no idea why.

[JimOttley]

That'll be famine and war that does that, no single virus can effect a complete population enough to decimate the world now due to the huge genetic diversity of the human race. Some folk are naturally immune to Aids, and after 20 years science has no idea why.

Agreed, it's not in the self interest of a disease to totally decimate its host.

However anything that comes along that has a 5% or greater mortality is going to be seriously noticable to the general public indeed even > 1% would be pretty noticable.


Jim

[KeithD]

The death rate from piggy flu is less than standard flu, however the difference is that it either very mild, or in less than 1% of cases, extremely serious, no middle ground.

We should all be immune on here having spent years living around monkeys