The book covers much of the 1918 outbreak. It also details recent effort by two teams to exhume 1918 flu victims from permafrost to study the 1918 flu virus. IIRC, the conclusion was that today's flu is genetically similar to the 1918 strain, but that it doesn't have the same epidemic effect today since 1918 survivors passed on the genetics to fight this strain. In other words, those humans that were genetically susceptible to the 1918 flu strain have all died off.
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Here's a great read on the 1918 Flu outbreak:
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Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata.
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The book covers much of the 1918 outbreak. It also details recent effort by two teams to exhume 1918 flu victims from permafrost to study the 1918 flu virus. IIRC, the conclusion was that today's flu is genetically similar to the 1918 strain, but that it doesn't have the same epidemic effect today since 1918 survivors passed on the genetics to fight this strain. In other words, those humans that were genetically susceptible to the 1918 flu strain have all died off.
I got the message from a friend last night thru AIM on my laptop at work. I never got any sort of IE message about installing software - nothing, nil, notta. Looked like a dead link. Now, today, on a totally separate computer, I'm sending AIM messages to everyone in my list. I have NO IDEA how (1) it was installed on my laptop without the pop-up message / approval and (2) how it made it to my home machine (thru AIM?). Also note, contrary to other posts, that this is not removed by using control panel add/remove - it leaves shit all over the machine.
http://merkle.com/pluto/ A great story about Project Pluto - "The Flying Crowbar" - a nuclear-powered cruise missle from the late 1950s.
Reminds me of when the Pope visited Phoenix. He spoke in only of the largest venues in Phoenix - Sun Devil Stadium at Arizona State University. ASU's mascot is a devil (a bit like the BSD logo). Sparky (the devil) was covered up for the Pope's visit. http://www.doney.net/aroundaz/celebrity/johnpaulii _pope.htm