right at this moment. here s what a truly horrible worst-case scenario pandemic would look like. first there would be a jump from some animal species to humans. the first humans would be the people close to those animals. and then their families and the kids in the schools, and it would not be regionally confined for long at all. days, that s it. and let s assume that it kills 5% of the people it infects. well, 5% would be hundreds of millions of human beings. pandemic flu will soon reach this country. if you become sick while traveling, contact once the epidemic has really
lot of air travel to? and there s a lot of variables to determine whether something spreads. if it s a respiratory the possibility of a pandemic influenza. influenza, the way it spreads, unlike ebola, where you have to come into direct contact of the body bly fluids, with influenza, somebody gets on the plane, they should be shedding virus for 24 hours before they know they re sick. that s the reason why that s the most dangerous. i think the hot spot thing is really interesting, because we ve traveled to places where you see animals and humans coming in close contact and that s a real concern. but you could also have a circulating virus, something that we already have seen in the world, that just undergoes a massive mutation, a reassortment, and it becomes a novel virus, becomes a new virus that we have not been exposed to and can cause this sort of pandemic flu. and there s fewer and fewer
seasonal flu and what we re talking about with highly lethal pandemic flu. seasonal flu, you know, it mutates a little bit every year. for the most part, your body has seen some variant of it, so, you have some protection against it. pandemic flu, what we re talking about with high lly lethal pandemic flu. it s a different virus. it mutated so much, we don t have immunity to it. pandemic flu, nobody has immunity to it. that s part of the concern. shannon, her case was just shocking, within, what, within a week within a week, yeah, she was dead and her mother was doing mouth to mouth on her, trying to keep her alive, which is every parent s worst nightmare. and i think there should be more awareness that flu does kill. doesn t always kill the extremely immune compromised or the elderly. and that we should do better in terms of diagnose nostics and te
a form that allows it to get into say pigs. and then from there to spread easily between people. we ve seen this over and over. it s going on all the time. right at this moment. here s what a truly horrible worst case scenario pandemic would look like. first there would be a jump from some animal species to humans. the first humans would be the people close to those animals. and then their families and the kids in the schools. and it would not be regionally confined for long at all. days, that s it. and let s assume it kills 5% of the people. 5% would be hundreds of millions of human beings. pandemic flu will soon reach
kids in the schools, and it would not be regionally confined for long at all. days, that s it. and let s assume that it kills 5% of the people it infects. well, 5% would be hundreds of millions of human beings. pandemic flu will soon reach this country. if you become sick while traveling, contact once the epidemic has really begun to spread, you can t even begin to imagine the scale of this. you want to be as far away from the city as possible. huge numbers of people that are not coming to work, and that includes jobs we consider essential for public safety, like the guys that turn water systems on and off, the police, the fire department. then people start blasting their conspiracy theories out about