Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00405)

In a message dated 29/12/2003 15:43:32 GMT Standard Time, 
netemara888@yahoo.com writes:

> Influenza has always been a killer. It usually kills thousands every 
> year. I don't know why people don't know that. It may have gotten an 
> earlier start this year and kill a few more than usual but there was 
> a world epidemic a while back that killed millions, that's an 
> epidemic of flu.
> 

I seem to remember many years ago reading of a flu epidemic which broke out 
at the end of the second world war, and killed more people than were killed 
during the entire war.

Just suppose the resources expended in the war had been used to fight disease 
and poverty instead.

Rgds

Gnosijoe

And on earth peace to all men of goodwill.


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