The actual deal to merge the top two U.S. satellite outfits and create a category-killer behemoth with 18 million subscribers is now beside the point.

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Today 2.7 million Americans are chronically infected with this killer virus, but only 800, 000 of them know it, so slow and insidious is the course of this disease.

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The ferocious creature is an Allosaurus, a Jurassic species with huge jaws and killer teeth that lived around 153 million to 135 million years ago.

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In this respect if we compare the 1918 Spanish flu, a swine flu variant (largest human killer of all time that took up to 100 million lives) and the 2009 Swine Flu, we see that a drugs cure would come far too late and most of us (between 300milion and over 1 billion worldwide is estimated) would be dead.

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