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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 == marketing hype by Sockatume · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's not what pandemic means. (A flu which affects a wide area and makes people sick is just regular old seasonal flu.) A pandemic is an epidemic of a single flu strain which occurs on a global scale.

    Don't make me define "epidemic" for you.

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    No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?