From: Gary Miller (garymiller@starband.net)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 09:39:19 MST
I've read that pneumonia typically is most dangerous to small children
or the elderly or to people who's immune systems are otherwise impaired.
Has anyone read whether the fatalities fit into these categories?
Also I thought I read last year that a general pneumonia vaccine was
available for the people in these high risk groups. Does anyone know if
this vaccine is effective against all known strains?
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Subject: No answers yet on mystery pneumonia
http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/03/16/mystery.disease/index.html
> A particularly virulent form of pneumonia had scientists and doctors
> scrambling Sunday for more information to share with a fearful public
> that already has been told to consider postponing visits to several
> locations where the disease has been reported.
This seems to be a particluarly nasty pneumonia.
> Over the past week, more than 150 new or suspected cases of the
> pneumonia have been reported around the world, the WHO said. Nine of
> those people have died.
So far this is a 6% mortality rate. But many of those with the disease
probably just haven't died yet. Probably we will end up in the >10%
mortality range.
Hopefully it will not get a chance to spread, or it will make all the
worlds other problems seem tiny in comparison.
-- hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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