Bird Flu Epidemic

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Originally Posted by PornoDoggy

Is that also true in Europe? Is it - glossed over? - because of the huge numbers of people who died?

Yes, it have been overlooked for years in Europe - WWI took most of the attention in history lessons from that period. I dunno why, but it might be that we as humans do not like to remember events where there are no "winners"...

I think this put the spanish flu into perspective "In 24 weeks, it took more lives than AIDS has in 24 years." .... ofcourse with AIDS being a slow killer it can do more harm long term, but if there had been as many humans in 1918 as we are today, then it could have killed 4 times the amount it did... 80-200 million people world wide in months...