Shimy: "just look at what happened to the natives. you know some anthopologists are starting to theorize that the native population in north america was upwards of 40 million before columbus. disease such as small pox then traveled faster then the explorers and wiped out the natives throughout the continent before the europeans got there. so there you have it, thats what can happened. atleast with avian flu we get flus all the time so our bodies have some sort of resistance."

Yeah, that is what I meant by something like this being potentially worse than a nuclear attack. Didn't specifically mean the bird flu, just some genetically engineered virus.

Shimy: "HAHAHAHAHA no, avian flu really sucks cause it kills people that are middle aged and healthy. thats what the 1918 flu did. funny thing about sars, i think sars only killed elderly which is why it seemed alot worse then it was cause it had a crasy mortality rate. bhah stats can be used to support any idea known to man."

Ah, I developed my little theory during the sars thing when all the elderly were dying. I guess it doesn't apply to avian flu.

Very interesting posts Shim, what did you or are you studying for?