http://xrdarabia.org/2009/11/29/haj-a-testbed-for-flu-science/ Informed comment and commentary about Saudi Arabia, reform, and its relations with the US Thu, 23 May 2013 21:34:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://xrdarabia.org/2009/11/29/haj-a-testbed-for-flu-science/comment-page-1/#comment-25572 Aafke Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:18:49 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=9341#comment-25572 Like I said before, N1 H1 is not really much more dangerous as the other influenza strains we have to deal with all the time, every year. This was a media hype.
And again, people do not die of the influenza virus, they die of secondary infections, and only if they have weak health to start with.

]]> http://xrdarabia.org/2009/11/29/haj-a-testbed-for-flu-science/comment-page-1/#comment-25546 Chiara Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:50:21 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=9341#comment-25546 True, this type of “natural experiment” would never pass through an ethics review board. It is good that the situation is monitored to reveal further the patterns of transmission. That there were so few ill or who died it excellent, and puts the disease in perspective.

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