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Tuesday, April 04, 2006We're also routinely told that we're "overdue" for a pandemic, with H5N1 the likeliest cause. Insert the search terms "avian flu," "pandemic," and "overdue" into Google and you'll get about 35,000 hits. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Anthony Fauci, insists we're "overdue," explaining that there were 3 pandemics in the 20th century and the last was in 1968. It's been 38 years since the last pandemic . Yet the time between the second and third pandemics was only 11 years. There's no cycle. As risk communication experts Peter Sandman and Jody Lanard say, the "overdue pandemic" is mere superstition. We do here that a lot. I've been hearing it for 20 years now in every lecture on influenza I've ever attended. Kind of like my grandmother who was always expecting another Great Depression any day now. If we only wait long enough, it's bound to happen. posted by Sydney on 4/04/2006 10:36:00 PM 2 comments 2 Comments:
Where does a LAWYER get off being published by the AMA to 'teach' doctors about the likelyhood of an infectious disease?
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