'BIRD FLU PANDEMIC WILL CUT TRAVEL, BRING QUARANTINES'

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alnmel schreef:


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Remember the world-wide carnage caused by the 1918 Flu Pandemic?

Ahhh yes.... I remember it well (TIC)


so does latest National Geographic

Well, I don't seem to recall that one. That's the year my parents
were wed.

Ermalee ---finally noticed something that I'm too YOUNG for :-)

MSNBC reported that the CDC oit of Atlanta said to aviod traveling to
countries with an "abundance" of birds! I guess we now have to fugire out
what is "abundance?"
"Ermalee McCauley" wrote in message
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wrote:

alnmel schreef:


wrote:

Remember the world-wide carnage caused by the 1918 Flu Pandemic?

Ahhh yes.... I remember it well (TIC)


so does latest National Geographic

Well, I don't seem to recall that one. That's the year my parents
were wed.

Ermalee ---finally noticed something that I'm too YOUNG for :-)

but emmalee, you could have been born before your parents were wed!

Anyway, my father was 7 years old when that pandemic struck; he lost
two of his brothers, both healthy teenages.

callaloo wrote:

but emmalee, you could have been born before your parents were wed!

Aaah! You didn't know my parents!!! Impossible.

Anyway, my father was 7 years old when that pandemic struck; he lost
two of his brothers, both healthy teenages.

That was, no doubt, a tragedy that your dad never got over.