Equally Safe from the Flu
By Jeffry Fawcett, January 17, 2006 in the Editorials blog
How dangerous is the bird flu? While “deadly” has been repeatedly attached to it, until last week, no one had actually asked.
“Deadly” got attached because about half of the small number of people, mostly in Asia, who have been diagnosed with the H5N1 virus have died. These were people who made it to a hospital or clinic in a city. This doesn’t tell us much about what’s going on in the countryside. [Read more…]