Pandemics of influenza are a lot like hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes, ... We've learned that the virus actually causes massive infection in humans...and turns on one's immune system in such a way that it alternately attacks the organs in the body.
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It may well be of great benefit to people who can get it while they're ill.
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All the other catastrophes we've had in the world in recent years at the very most put screen doors on our borders. This would seal shut a six-inch steel door.
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We can predict now 12 to 18 months of stress of watching loved ones die, of wondering if you are going to have food on the table the next day. Those are all things that are going to mean that we are going to have to plan -- unlike any other crisis that we have had in literally the last 80-some years in this country.
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