Swine Flu Frenzy Has Washington Fighting Over Pork

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missperfectblonde of NY 8:30PM June 14, 2009

Its very scary...www.missperfectblonde.com

missperfectblonde of NY 8:29PM June 14, 2009

Has the Republican party continues to try to find a new forum that will lift them up from the bottom of most polls they continue to keep stumbling over they simplest way up. How about the novel idea of starting to do what is for the good of all the populace! Fail or succeed what we want to see is a true effort to put aside partisanship and at least give a good show of trying to do what is best for all of us. Again this article is showing them in a bad light by having to eat their own words, fortunately so far we have been lucky but like the 1918 epidemic this bug is mirroring that one closely! They have everything to gain by pitching in and seriously trying to get us back on the right path, maybe then some of us will forget how we got on this path in the first place!

Cuurtis Gwin Jr of WA 7:56AM May 07, 2009

A trans-specie virus is the outcome of years of factory farming;raising animals in deplorable conditions, making it necessary to load them up with mega-doses of antibiotics to keep them alive for human consumption has backfired on the people. Abstain from eating animals and avoid swine flu,
cancer, coronary artery disease, hyperlipidemia while at the same time saving a poor creature with an IQ higher than a dog,
from untold misery.
Watch the documentary on Comcast about Factory Farming and become aware; knowledge is your best defense.

Theo Kulesza FNP-BC of NJ 1:43PM May 01, 2009

My county - Sacramento country has no idea of how many are effected by the swine flu. What about yours? My friend got super sick 3 days ago with the flu and called the hospital. Their directive was to stay at home until she felt better. They did not ask her name, location, phone number, ect. for tracking purposes. So in short, there is NO TRACKING of who has the “regular flu” and who has the “swine flu”. Concerned, I called our Sacramento County public health division (916) 875-5881 and the response is “we don't have enough test kits to adequately test”. Today my friend’s two children are sick with the flu. So…I don’t think the government news reports are accurate numbers. I’m guessing future reported flu cases will most likely be the people that die from the disease (hopefully a small number) until testing kits are available to the general public and we can see the real picture. Statistically my friend and her children do not have the swine flu. But what are the statistics?

Gregg Chrzanowski of CA 3:42PM April 30, 2009

What is the difference between those immagrants who came over on the Mayflowere with smallpox and decimated the indigenous people now it is going back on the people of today

Gary of AZ 3:02PM April 30, 2009

SWINFLY

BEN of FL 6:14AM April 30, 2009

If you guys are trying your hardest about stopping this flu! then you need to have people stay at home and not travel because what happens when they travel they take it with them and then the place they go gets it and then whoever got it from that person takes it and travels and so forth!! everyone will end up getting this flu if everyone keeps traveling everyone will keep getting it! you need to have people stay at home for there safety and other peoples safety! you need to have everyone stay home until this is resolved! thank you!!

shyanne of WA 11:21PM April 28, 2009

Here is my concern. I am from Delaware and at the end of February a very close friend of the family took ill to what she thought was the flu and within 24 hours her heart rate increased and she had cardiac arrest and passed. They stated that it was infection that got in her blood stream and went straight to the heart. Now 2 weeks ago my brother's step son who is in his 40's had the same exact situtation and he passed. Both were very healthy people and she had not missed a days work in over 3 years. Now.... the US states that we have no confirmed cases that resulted in death. Well something happened to them and it sounds like it was the same thing as all symptons were the same. I do not feel that we are getting the information in a truthful manner. I now know of 3 more cases of co-workers who has a relative that has gone to the hospital and is on medication for the flu. So why do I not see Delaware reporting cases? I am very concerned.

DeGirl0613 of DE 5:20PM April 28, 2009

Why isn't it called the Mexican Flu ? Isn't that where it originated ? Wake up people. Where are they dying from it ? Here it just makes you sick, just like any other flu. Because here we have real doctors, democrats won't like that capitalist statement. There they still see witch doctors. Only bring someone in after they begin to stink.

OLd Moses of NM 2:53PM April 28, 2009