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Flu + La Nina = Pandemic?

Posted by timothy on from the african-or-european-swallow dept.

New submitter MrEricSir writes with some scary speculation from a BBC article about the confluence of climate and disease: "A correlation between illness and cold weather is nothing new but this one is very specific: La Nina changes the migratory patterns of birds which can (and often does, according to this theory) cause flu pandemics."

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  1. Re:Pandemic term by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The pandemic word is used to create terror. With two patients of the same desease in different continents you have a pandemic.

    Oh shut up. Pandemics are real. And potentially very dangerous. Not everything is hype. Take some more happy pills or go over to one of the copyright threads and angst there.

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