Swine Flu Now a Pandemic

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Basically they declared it a pandemic for two reason
1) This virus has shown some propensity to negatively effect health individuals. This is a big deal, as usually, these people aren't effect by the flu
2) It's spread a lot, and this is really off-season for flu. This will still be around come September-October, and they probably want to get ready for that.
What you can do is get the flu shot this year.

Michael of CA 1:31AM June 12, 2009

If the garden variety flu kills 36 thousand in the US each year , how does a flu that has killed 144 people world wide become a pandemic? Is the UN nuts?
Wait don't answer that.
This is getting a bit like crying woof, when we need to heed information , people will not pay attention.

JIM in the land of home speculation & the cash out refi. of FL 11:28PM June 11, 2009