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On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:29:10PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > > According to the wikipedia's quote of WHO the weighted average > mortality rate, which would be across 50 human cases, is 66% in 2006, > and 56% across all 194 cases reported since 2004. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1 But this is of cases that were (a) bad enough that the person went to a doctor [mostly in countries where this is rare anyway] and (b) were identified as something other than "drink plenty of chicken [or plomik] soup, and it will go away in a few days". Is there a report which extrapolates the UNREPORTED cases and estimates the mortality rate from that? [And does anyone have any basis on which to make these guesses?] -- Joe Yao ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.
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