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Matteo Vinci
Cruncher Australia Joined: Jul 5, 2007 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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i guess now is as good a time as ever to raise the importance of using idle processing time for such vital research
----------------------------------------especially now with the potential pandemic of swine flu what is everyones opinion on the way the media is portraying the issue & what are your thoughts on how WCG can help? i wonder if WCG is looking into this as potentially another project?
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Strikes me there is a danger it will be like the SARS scare, a media hype only. So far no deaths outside Mexico and most deaths there in males aged 25 to 45.....
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Sekerob
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Certainly WCG goes around and visits and presents at conventions and conferences to promote the grid resource, but WCG does not 'make' science projects.
----------------------------------------As for SARS and BirdFlu, there were a grid projects that addressed this for instance the just ended D2OL. As for that age group thing, is there a behavioural drive behind this? 25-45 age group may have a higher contact diversity, working populous than the younger and older... or is it that the elder have a broader resistance against different flu variations and the younger carry some from womb? Certainly a recent study revealed that those who survived the Hong Kong and Spanish flu pandemics to this day have a very high degree of immunity to those particular strains i.e. it's immunity for live.
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