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virus.stanford.edu - 4/26/2009

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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Those Swine!
Megan McArdle — ... The mortality in Mexico is shockingly high:  81 cases out of 1300, or about 6%.  The great Spanish Flu pandemic, on the other hand, had a mortality of about 2.5%.  Normal rates for flu are less than a tenth of 1%, with most of those deaths occurring in people who are already weak:  children, the elderly, the immunocompromised.  The Spanish Flu hit hardest the 15-34 age group, who seem to have been done in by their own strong immune response.  It's not clear which pattern this flu follows. ...

keeping our eyes on the ball
Raw Dawg Buffalo — ... For example, since the peanut contamination in South Georgia, I wave wondered what would be the quickest way to strike terror in the world I live in is to attack my stomach, I just wonder if our intelligence community has thought of this? I mean I was just a child when I first heard of Swine flu. I remember the new because it was in the year of the bicentennial, 1976, and occurred at Fort Dix where a young solider was killed by an influenza not seen since the plague of 1918-19. Swine flu normally infects pigs, but has been detected ...

4/28: Sue And The Swine Flu
Blogometer — ... ): "How worried should we be about the Swine Flu? The mortality in Mexico is shockingly high: 81 cases out of 1300, or about 6%. The great Spanish Flu pandemic, on the other hand, had a mortality of about 2.5%. Normal rates for flu are less than a tenth of 1% , with most of those deaths occurring in people who are already weak: children, the elderly, the immunocompromised. [...] The bright side is that mortality here seems to be a lot lower -- nonexistant so far. People living in poorer countries tend to have weaker immune systems for the obvious reasons. And the strain ...