Liam's blog

Well, here's my new blog and a couple interesting tid-bits to start it off.
I've been arguing about the risks of travelling in China with bird flu recently and so here are a couple statistics:
On January 11th the WHO said 5 people had died in China of bird flu. I think 10 have contracted it by now. Thats 10/1.3 billion.
On the other hand, about 100 people die of lightning in the US each year, thats 100/300 million.

1:130 million - bird flu
43:130million - lightning
So, I'm 43 times more likely to die of lightning in the US than die of bird flu in China this summer!

And, if even one single person dies of bird flu in Switzerland, that'll fix the statistics so that I'm 20x more likely to die in Switzerland than in China...