How swine flu could be a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear warfare…
When a new animal virus emerges in some crowded corner of the Third World and the experts start talking gravely about pandemics, the inevitable question is: How much should we worry?
Well, it probably isn’t time, quite yet, to be heading for the hills but the emergence of a new and deadly strain of swine flu in Mexico is a matter of serious concern.
If we are lucky, we will see something like a rerun of the SARS or bird flu scares seen earlier this decade – scary but containable outbreaks of disease which have (so far) killed a few dozen to a few hundred people.
But if we are really unlucky, and experts stress that so far this is looking unlikely, we could be witnessing the beginning of a global catastrophe that could kill tens or even hundreds of millions.
For it remains the fact that in a world awash with new and exotic fears, from computer bugs to terrorist dirty bombs, old-fashioned infectious disease – particularly the numerous influenzas which infect humans, pigs and birds – probably still has the greatest capacity to kill the most people in the shortest time.
In 1918, the ‘Spanish Flu’ avian flu pandemic (which actually had nothing to do with Spain) probably killed between 50million and 100million, far more than the First World War. If something equally virulent and infectious were to emerge today it is possible that the toll would be even greater.
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This is bad and getting worse.
Every person is in danger right now.
The person next to you could be sick.
No government will tell you the real truth.
You are at risk.
No one cares.
I am,
George Vreeland Hill
When this stuff starts hitting my area, I don’t know what I’m going to do.
Did anyone catch that phone-in to ‘The Power Hour’ from Mary, about a month ago? I am gobsmacked and don’t know what to do except email and verbally tell people about my concerns. They all think I’m mad!