Thread: H1N1 Hysteria
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wufwugy
Old 11-20-2009, 09:03 PM #21 (permalink)  
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Originally Posted by d0zer
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Originally Posted by wufwugy
The risk of bad 'side effects' is substantially higher from the flu itself than from the vaccine.

One reason not mentioned why there's been 'hysteria' over H1N1 is to reduce risk of mutation or hybridization which would result in Black Death type pandemics. For example: many believe that if H1N1 came in contact with H5N1 (I believe that's the particular strain I'm thinking of) that it would be GAME OVER for like 1/3rd of the world's population. This is because the resulting hybrid would have a standard level of contamination, but a super high level of fatalities (like 80+%)
Sounds pretty massively speculative.
In a way it is, but the theory is sound. Greater quantities with more variations of viruses over larger regions creates a higher risk of more deleterious mutations. You won't find a single accredited biologist who disagrees with this.
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