Monday, May 25, 2009
The world must be ready for H1N1 swine flu to become more severe and kill more people,
REUTERS: WHO chief warns H1N1 swine flu likely to worsen :
The world must be ready for H1N1 swine flu to become more severe and kill more people, World Health Organization chief Dr. Margaret Chan said on Friday.The WHO is poised to declare a full pandemic of the virus, which has infected more than 11,000 people in 42 countries and killed 86. And U.S. health officials released $1 billion for companies to get started on a vaccine in case it is needed.
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1. shining wit said...
I guess it's going to be rather difficult to speculate on the property crisis/market when you're dead !
House price crash? relevence?
Recession flu - like man flu but it makes you go blad !
2. shining wit said...
oops, bald ;-) !
3. icarus said...
HPC relevence? I suppose there is an analogy between regulators wagging their fingers at bankers when it's too late and the WHO waiting for indusrialised pig and poultry "farming" to spread its inevitable diseases before it does/says anything about it. Maybe this wasn't in WHO's remit?
4. crunchy said...
The truth is that nobody can say that these issues have no relevents to HPC untill we get to the bottom of what this last ten years or so has been all about. Oops! Was that too deep? I had better find a lame D, Smith article to keep most here happy!