Re: Re: Viral Immunity

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I'm a bit confused now over this debate & how much CR to practice.. But to answer your question Rodney.. it's a lung infection that will cause the vitim to choke on his own blood as gruesome as it sounds... I believe this is how the poor birds are buying the farm too. Fat birds, thin birds..different species of birds (and some German cats I might add). From what I have read from good sources, this will normally kill people in the 20-40 year age range..(Young & healthy). This is also how the Spanish Flu worked, (which also mutated from a Bird Flu) . I heard that when it happens it will be difficult if not impossible to fully escape it. - there were articles discussing how a the Spanish Flu also killed off a sizable number of people in a small, *remote* Alaskan villages. More interesting snippets: "This present H5N1 Bird

Flu virus has a mortality rate of at least 50% (the infection rate is unknown). Some scientists expect this high mortality to drop if this virus becomes pandemic but this is only an assumption and may not occur. Even with a 5% mortality rate at least 160 million people will die directly from the pandemic and this does not include the possible subsequent deaths due to the likely breakdown of essential services, such as food, water, and medical supplies etc. The effects on the world from a higher mortality rate would be too horrendous to contemplate but still possible." More on how the Spanish Flu killed so many: http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-75-1965-12706/science_technology/influenza/clip3 best regards, Rodney <perspect1111@...> wrote: Hi folks:And this raises another issue, which is:WHAT, PRECISELY, do the Avian Flu victims (the 50% fatalities) die from? Do they lose massive amounts of weight? Or not? Is it the slimmest who die and the fattest who survive? (Survival of the fattest?) Or is there no correlation between weight before infection and mortality rate? Is the issue something entirely different in humans?Rodney.> >> > > > > I am perplexed. And would like to resolve that perplexity one > way or> > > the other!> > > > Hi Rodney. Sorry to be a pain in the butt.> > > > All I'm saying is that the study refers to what happens *after* > infection > > has occurred, not to a prior susceptibility to infection.> > > > So: it's conceivable that CRONistas could be more resistant to > infection, > > yet be more likely to die *if* they become infected.>

> > > Al> >>

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