11-14-2009, 08:11 AM
It seems that the medical community is seriously worried, or maybe better, scared, about a pandemic outbreak of some sort of disease. So whenever they come across something that is new or unusually mutated and also infectious, the alarm bells ring. Maybe humanity is more resistent to these new viruses than we think we are, or maybe we were just lucky, I don't know. This H1N1 is apparently related to what's called the "Spanish flu" in Holland, an influenza mutation that caused a lot of havoc (and deaths) in 1919 in Europe. Fortunately we live under much better hygenienic circumstances than then.