Post by rivqah on May 4, 2009 2:46:32 GMT -7
This article was posted last week and right now only one six year old Mexican girl has died from the swine flu. She came to America for medical treatment. Thousands of people die every year from the REGULAR FLU.
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CNN) -- There had been no confirmed deaths in the United States related to swine flu as of Tuesday afternoon. But another virus had killed thousands of people since January and is expected to keep killing hundreds of people every week for the rest of the year.
People are nervous about swine flu, but the regular flu kills 36,000 people a year in the United States.
That one? The regular flu.
An outbreak of swine flu that is suspected in more than 150 deaths in Mexico and has sickened dozens of people in the United States and elsewhere has grabbed the attention of a nervous public and of medical officials worried the strain will continue to mutate and spread.
Experts are nervous that, as a new strain, the swine flu will be harder to stop because there aren't any vaccines to fight it.
But even if there are swine-flu deaths outside Mexico -- and medical experts say there very well may be -- the virus would have a long way to go to match the roughly 36,000 deaths that seasonal influenza causes in the United States each year.
"That happens on an annual basis," Dr. Brian Currie said Tuesday. Currie is vice president and medical director at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York.
Since January, more than 13,000 people have died of complications from seasonal flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly report on the causes of death in the nation.
No fewer than 800 flu-related deaths were reported in any week between January 1 and April 18, the most recent week for which figures were available.
The report looks at deaths in the 122 largest cities in the United States.
Worldwide, the annual death toll from the flu is estimated to be between 250,000 and 500,000.
edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/28/regular.flu/index.html
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"...Mexican officials bitterly criticized China for putting about 70 Mexican citizens in isolation. They said the nationals were being singled out because of their passports -- despite showing no signs of the virus. Watch how China hunts for the infected ยป.."
"...Meanwhile, hundreds of farmers in Egypt threw rocks and bottles Sunday at police who were following government orders to cull all the country's pigs. U.N. officials have said the move will not stop the spread of the virus, and the country has not recorded any case of H1N1.
While it is a predominantly Muslim country, the pigs mostly belong to the Coptic Christian minority, fanning religions tensions...."
www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/04/swine.flu.main/index.html
"..On Thursday, Massachusetts talk radio host Jay Severin was suspended after calling Mexican immigrants "criminalians" and that hospital emergency rooms had become "essentially condos for Mexicans."
"The concern and hysteria is really getting a little bit out of control," said Mia Taylor, a graduate student in San Diego, California. "People need to just take a step back and act with more common sense and not appeal to the lowest common denominator."..."
www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/04/swine.flu.main/index.html
Amen! Rebecca: I really think this man made flu so-called epidemic was a test run for later; for whatever reason it will be used.