A Brief History of the Future Dead - Part I

24:19 | Dan Verton | Apr 6th, 2007 4:18pm |

This is a program I’m calling PodTech on Pandemic Preparedness. Say that five times fast!

In all seriousness, pandemic influenza has health care experts and scientists all over the world scrambling to prepare for a global disease outbreak that could be as deadly as ebola and as common as the common cold. In fact, if the current strain of avian influenza (all of our human influenzas come from birds, by the way), known as H5N1, maintains its current mortality rate (higher than 50%) and mutates into something more virulent, we are likely to see millions of Americans between the ages of 18 and 45 die.

That’s right, between the ages of 18 and 45 — most video “bloggers” and IT professionals.

In this first part, we look at the overall threat of H5N1 avian influenza.

Tags: Preparedness, pandemic, influenza, health care, ebola, influenza, H5N1, avian influenza

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