"Kathleen" > wrote in message
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> Aingon Atelia wrote:
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>>>Aingon Atelia wrote:
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>>>>>On Mar 1, 3:28 am, sf > wrote:
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>>>I thought people only died (in the modern world) of pneumonia if they
>>>were already ill with something else?
>
> Not necessarily. People still die of the flu and its aftermath. That's
> why we try to vaccinate against it. The second sickest I've ever been was
> with influenza. I'm a strong, healthy, middle-aged adult and I was so
> sick, with high fever and respiratory symptoms and terrible body pain,
> that I was more than a little scared. And it took me a long time to get
> well.
>
> (The absolute sickest I've ever been was with dengue fever that I got from
> a mosquito bite down in Mexico and I was more than a little scared, I
> thought I was going to die.)
>
Want to help medical research work on a possible cure for dengue,
using spare time on your computer? This group lets you do that in the
background:

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

If you don't think any of their other projects deserve equal priority,
select only Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together as your preferred
project, but then I'd suggest that you also allow them to send you
workunits from other projects when they don't have any available
from that project, simply to make more room on their hard drives
for more workunits from that project.

However, I haven't seen very much activity from that project since
a hurricane hit Texas near one of the worksites for that project,
so don't be surprised if you end up contributing computer time
mainly to their other projects.

Robert Miles