Whew! I'm going to sleep better tonight
This is precisely the type of story NPR should be using taxpayer dollars to report. It tells why the 50% mortality rate predicted for bird flu is highly misleading, and explains why, even if bird flu goes wild, a more likely mortality rate is 2%. Worldwide, 2% would still result in a staggering number of deaths, but nothing like watching half the world population drop dead.
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