X-Message-Number: 21425 From: Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 06:18:07 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #21416 SARS --part1_1ec.4936570.2ba9abef_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is a theory about flu: Every ten years or so, a new virus will overcome the established ones. When a sufficient part of the population has been in contact with the virus, life long vaccination effect forbid the illness return. When the vaccinated people die of old age, the ground is free for the virus and a new pandemic can start. We are now more than 80 years after the Spanish flu story, so it would be time to the virus to start again. I think there is a "good" probability that SARS is a come back of Spanish flu, a flu-like virus with new antigenic properties. If it is that, we are going for nearly one billion deaths. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_1ec.4936570.2ba9abef_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21425