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Originally Posted by Won
What did happen to Zika virus? Why did we stop talking about it?
It will probably be the same with 2019-nCoV.
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So much of that is media hype. If it bleeds it leads, or if they can scare monger, they make more money.
Ebola was going to kill us all. Then it just faded away.
The new virus is less deadly than the flu. There are 12,000 – 61,000 deaths every year from the regular old flu. 45 million people home sick, or worse yet, at work, spreading the disease. We honestly need to change the way the flu is though about. It really is deadly.
From 2 percent to as high as 65 percent of patients die! According to one 2016 report. It is estimated that between 70 and 85 percent of seasonal flu-related deaths have occurred in people 65 years and older.