User talk:ZayZayEM/Flupandemic

Links

 * Emerging infections: pandemic influenza Review article

History

 * The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? Workshop Summary (2005) Board on Global Health (BGH)
 * 1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics
 * age mortality changes in pandemic flu(1918) "W" shape

Overhype
Michael Fumento, JD (yes, a lawyer - probably best to review his sources) 
 * The Threat of an Avian Flu Pandemic is Over-Hyped.

1946 pandemic
Several references mention this without much detail. What was it?

Sources conflict as to the number of pandemics last century (between 3 and 6).

This article seems to add some sunlight http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4DC1438F93AA15752C1A964958260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Pandemic influenzaviruses
Are caused by antigenic shift that cannot be done through simple mutation. That is going to be a doozy to explain simply.