"Half of Norway can die in a pandemic"

[Theresa42]

Via urdar on FW (hat-tip, urdar!):

Norweigan scientist and member of national pandemic comitte Olav Albert Christophersen is critisising government for underestimating the danger.

"Spanish flu" is not considered worst case scenario anymore, It could be much worce, half the population could die based on what we know about H5N1 in Indonesia and Egypt. The plans must be based on this, and not a milder scenario than spanish flu. We now have airtransport and hughe city populations, this will make things worce.

He is cowriter on a report with John Fredrik Moxnes, scientist at the Defence institute of science to be published in "Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease".

http://www.newfluwiki2.com/showComment.do?commentId=73933

Halve Norge kan dø i en pandemi
http://www.dagsavisen.no/innenriks/article322198.ece [<< article in Norwegian]

 

[Theresa42]

Re: "Half of Norway can die in a pandemic"

We've heard from Christophersen before:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14798&highlight=Christophersen

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27233&highlight=Christophersen

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9836&highlight=Christophersen

 

[tropical]

Re: "Half of Norway can die in a pandemic"

:applause: to the scientists Christophersen and Moxnes for their efforts,

and FW urdar, and FT Theresa 42, for publishing that here.