“Blood tests show that many survivors of the 1918 flu pandemic seem to have immunity to the current swine flu, but not to the seasonal flu that hits every year.”
Seth Borenstein, WA Associated Press
This from findings in a study by a top University of Wisconsin flu researcher, Yoshishiro Kawaoka, that were released Monday.
Gee, I’ll bet he didn’t have a “statistically significant” sample of the population to choose from. If you were born in 1918 you would be 91. I guess he redefined “many” while he was doing his research.
Anyway, the good news is that you will probably die from something else (like old age) before you croak from swine flu, if you survived the 1918 pandemic. Something to look forward to!!
