Swine Flu hysteria run amuck!

Scientists see this flu strain as relatively mild

As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza — at least in its current form — isn’t shaping up to be as fatal as the strains that caused some previous pandemics.

In fact, the current outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which emerged in San Diego and southern Mexico late last month, may not even do as much damage as the run-of-the-mill flu outbreaks that occur each winter without much fanfare.

“Let’s not lose track of the fact that the normal seasonal influenza is a huge public health problem that kills tens of thousands of people in the U.S. alone and hundreds of thousands around the world,” said Dr. Christopher Olsen, a molecular virologist who studies swine flu at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine in Madison.

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6 Responses to “Swine Flu hysteria run amuck!”
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Speranza

1 | April 30, 2009 8:49 am

Didn’t the government under Gerald Ford overreact back in 1976 to a similar ‘epidemic’ and wound up making things worse?
InsubordinateNonCom

2 | April 30, 2009 9:23 am

Well, it’s official. I’ve had my (LGF) account blocked for dinging someone’s comment up, which Charles decided to find “insulting”. Apparently I was a “Paulian sleeper” or something else from his fevered imagination. So… here I am. A refugee of Paulian sleeper hysteria.

Kind of like swine flu hysteria but without all the diarrhea.
Speranza

3 | April 30, 2009 9:57 am

2. InsubordinateNonCom
What was your nic?

The whole concept of dinging is so 8th grade.
InsubordinateNonCom

4 | April 30, 2009 10:24 am

I used to be known as Sgt.Slappy, until I dinged up a comment by VegasRick the other day. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/showc/20/7084434
He was blocked as were the other people who gave his comment a + rating.

I even sent a expletive-free rational email about it. No reply. No open account.
Bill Jenkins

5 | April 30, 2009 11:04 am

Welcome to the other side, InsubordinateNonCom.

Isn’t it amazing that people over there still don’t get it? March out of step and you’re squashed by the lizard king.

Charles says jump and you can’t even ask how high… you better already know how high.
Escovado

6 | May 1, 2009 12:36 am

Answers in Genesis posted an article on the swine flu: Swine Flu—Cause for Concern?