Swine Flu Is Heating Up
November 19th, 2009 at 5:47 am Posted by The Dean
At this rate, The Dean believes his Swine Flu IPO could begin trading just as the swine flu frenzy is really heating up.
A report from the Associated Press this morning suggests that even “radical measures won’t stop swine flu.” In China, a country with more than 3 times the population of the United States, 70,000 reported illnesses and 53 deaths have been causing quite a stir. If this trend of infection continues, China could see 1,000,000 deaths from swine flu.
In fact, The Dean and health officials are surprised that only 53 deaths have been recorded because as many as 4,000 Americans have died from swine flu since April—so China’s potential death toll could be even higher.
The Dean believes the swine flu could be devastating in China, where only 7% of its 1.3 billion people are expected to receive vaccination by the year’s end.
The list of infected countries has grown to include Singapore, Mongolia, Malaysia and Egypt, since most infected people are believed to spread the H1N1 virus before they start showing symptoms. And Ukraine, where travel restrictions and bans on meeting in public have been implemented, has reported 250,000 new cases just last week.
The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that mass quarantines and school closures are failing to slow down the transmission of the disease but The Dean believes this is because classrooms, office building, movie theaters, and shopping malls need to be disinfected.
This is why The Dean thinks resources such as ultraviolet germicidal and air disinfection technologies could become an extremely lucrative market this flu season.
