The Guardian has a handy interactive feature on the spread of the new swine influenza strain, which the WHO warns could become a global pandemic.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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And, most importantly, why does all of this matter?
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1 comment:
My favorite part of this story is how everyone talked about bird flu being the next big pandemic, and now swine flu suddenly pops up. This is how pandemics occur, with sudden changes in the virus, not something predicted by a bunch of overhyped coverage on CNN. Not to say that bird flu isn't potentially quite serious, but you can't outsmart nature. At least we're now far, far better equipped to handle stuff like this than in, say, 1919...
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