Greg Poland of the Mayo Clinic is concerned with a new and deadly strain of flu that could emerge that would sweep across the planet, erasing every advantage that modern medicine has given doctors in treating the flu.
"(What) I've learned after thirty years of studying this virus is there's next to nothing predictable about it, and when you begin to feel comfortable, you're well on the road to bad things happening."
The 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people than any other disease outbreak in human history, according to "The Great Influenza" book by John Barry.
"Influenza killed more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century. It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years," according to John Barry.
Reckon It Was Imminent Two Years Ago.
Reckon It Was Imminent Two Years Ago.
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