User talk:ZayZayEM/Flupandemic

Links

• Emerging infections: pandemic influenza Review article

History

• The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? Workshop Summary (2005) Board on Global Health (BGH)
• 1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics
• age mortality changes in pandemic flu(1918) "W" shape

Overhype

• The Threat of an Avian Flu Pandemic is Over-Hyped.

Michael Fumento, JD (yes, a lawyer - probably best to review his sources) [1]

1946 pandemic

Several references mention this without much detail. What was it?

Sources conflict as to the number of pandemics last century (between 3 and 6).

This article seems to add some sunlight http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4DC1438F93AA15752C1A964958260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Pandemic influenzaviruses

Are caused by antigenic shift that cannot be done through simple mutation. That is going to be a doozy to explain simply.