titan, agree with you 100%. The figures you quote however are for the general population, I am using figures for those infected. Fully 30% of those who caught the Spanish flu at that time died of the disease - between 30-40 million worldwide. Scary stuff eh? The figures for SARS seem to be around 5% of those infected. With a number of these being elderly and suffering from multiple ailments. The truly scary thing about the Spanish flu was that it struck mainly healthy young people in their prime.
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