Worse than swine flu
Hypochondriacs, stop reading right now.
In Foreign Policy: Swine flu has infected 1,500 people worldwide and killed around 30, almost all in Mexico. But it is far from the world’s most serious disease outbreak. Here are five you probably won’t see on the evening news.
The five are cholera, spinal meningitis, AIDS, Ebola (a non-fatal strain has appeared in the Philippines), and dengue fever.
Recommended reading: Barth Anderson’s highly prescient techno-thriller The Patron Saint of Plagues. Set in the near future, it’s about an epidemic that begins in Mexico.
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May 13th, 2009 at 10:56
30 killed. What a wimp. As far as flu goes, regular flu is still king.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/28/regular.flu/