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Obama Advisers: Swine Flu Could Infect Nearly Half the U.S. Population

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extreme fat loss plan of 6:58AM June 18, 2010

We had swine flu in Iraq and it required a five day stay in bed and it was over.

Veteran of VA 12:17AM August 28, 2009

Mlimberg of GA is a better journalist than Queenie Wong, if you ask me. Ms. Wong seems to be playing into the hands of those who big-deal everything, without any particular factual background for the inflammatory statements. I'm upset that USN&WR lets itself be used by quasi-reporters to scare people into, perhaps, embracing changes in healthcare--or is that the idea behind it all?

Jill of CA 6:02PM August 27, 2009

There is something wrong with this whole event. First, 36,000 residents of the USA die each year from flu related illness. So far, over the last 10 months just over 500 deaths have been linked to H1N1.
Of these linked deaths, other factors also played into the death ( preexisting condition, very young, very old ).
The flu virus in the wild mutates daily. It is and always has been subject to genetic mutations. So when a vaccine is released, it will be based on the genetic makeup of a 6 to 12 month old strain. It can't be helped, it's the way nature works.
A pandemic is what it is being called. Pandemics are only wide spread events, and not numbers of deaths event. So this virus is world wide. Most viruses are with modern era of travel. An epidemic is different. No one is talking about an epidemic.
The number of expected cases of H1N1 fall within normal statistical limits for a virus. Nothing new about the expected cases of H1N1 when compared to a normal flu season.
As far as the data that is presented, it's based on speculation. And the historical data is in general, in line with a virus during a normal flu season.
My first expectation is that the H1N1 virus will be a non event and forgotten a year from now.
So why all the press? It's got to be related to politics. It's too coincidental that the Obama Health Plan and H1N1 are both in the news.
The Obama Health Plan would have no effect on any event, even if it became a epidemic. But I expect that at some point, the argument will be made that ObamaCare would have prevented the non event about to unfold.
I'm not planning on getting any vaccinations for any flu virus this year or for the next 20 years at this point. I have taken the vaccine in the past, and sure enough, got the flu, most likely from the vaccine itself.
There are two types of vaccines that can be developed. Those that contain only dead virus, and some that contain a mix of dead and living virus. I'm not sure what they are developing with this vaccine. But I don't want any part of either. It is my belief that the vaccine contains more risk to my health than does exposure to the virus in the wild. I am in general good health. I travel all over the place. I was exposed to the virus in Central America in July. I did experience possible symptoms 8 days after the exposure, which is a reasonable incubation period.
The purpose of this whole discussion is to put this event into light, that it could be a political event. Even the CDC is presenting in carefully chosen terms their expressed concerns.
If a year from now, this whole event passes without staggering numbers, which I'm reasonably certain it will, it's time to look at your Government differently. Personally, I do not trust them or their numbers or their science.

mlimberg of GA 3:37PM August 26, 2009

Christina,
Americans don't wear face masks for H1N1 because it is spread by droplets not air-born. Wash your hands and dont touch your eyes and nose. If a person has flu like symptoms then s/he should wear a facemask.
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/masks.htm

Mat of OR 9:17PM August 25, 2009

...but I can't help thinking swine flu might eliminate some "stupidity" from the national gene pool.

Elliot of ID 7:27PM August 25, 2009

AFFECT (INFECT) HALF OF OUR POPULATION ! Let's get real people ....all you have to do is go to the World Healths Organization's web site and look at the statistics for Argentina, New Zealand and Australia and you'll find that they being in the southern hemisphere...their winter is over ...and they had hardly any deaths related to the h1n1. This seasons normal influenza has killed over 300,000 people world wide so far this season and we get no MEDIA and FEDERAL HYPE on it! Whats really going on here is justification for that 7+ billion dollar federal expenditure for the production of the h1n1 vaccinations...vaccinations I might add that will contain the FEDERALLY BANNED ADJUVANTS THIMEROSAL and SQUALENE !! In reality the vaccinations will cause more harm to more humans than that of the h1n1 virus! I urge everyone to go to THE NATIONAL VACCINATION INFORMATION CENTERS web site @ www.nvic.org and listen to Barbara Zoe Fisher's video. Also go to www.drmercola.com and go to www.brainguard.com for more information on the DEVASTATING side effects of these up and coming vaccinations! Thank you .....PHIL esq

PHIL esq of AK 7:23PM August 25, 2009

All this talk of vaccines is crazy for swine flu and even more so to contemplate giving it to people without the proper studies being done. Tamiflu fairs no much better with the recent connections to heart complaints. Homeopathic medicine for flu would be much safer, cheaper and easier to do especially in times of economic and health crisis. Also the studies and scientific proof is there. Over 60% of physicians in the UK are refusing to take the flu shot themselves. Perhaps for good reason the facility charged with producing the flu vaccines for the UK and the USA was shut down by the national MCA - Medical Controls Agency for a period of time recently to get its standards up. This was published in the uk press briefly and buried.
When Spanish Flu spread in 1918 50 million people died. American hospital statistics at the time show people did better in homeopathic hospitals with survival. For at least the past 150 years homeopathic practitioners have used the medicine Influenzinum as a flu preventive. The first medicine used in France to treat flu is Oscillococcinum made by Boiron and sells 7 million euros annually. Boiron was bought recently by the Bayer group. This Oscillococcinum can be bought on line from Drugstore dot com. This remedy recently toped pharmacy sales list and sales in the US alone are in the region of £20 million. A course costs of Oscillococcinum costs £6, which is used regularly by 5 million French for the prevention of colds and flu’s every year. Lets face it five million French can’t be wrong? The remedy was studied in 1987 and also 1990 during flu epidemics and demonstrated they worked and especially by reducing flu symptoms.
Due to the cytokine storm with this flu and homeopathic medicine being a non chemical medicine – this could be our solution panacea for all these flu’s safely. India has over 250,000 homeopathic doctors.
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Ralph Quinlan Forde of NJ 7:21PM August 25, 2009

They really are trying hard to sell this Swine Flu thing... I think we've heard and read enough press already on it. Yeah, we get the point guys. People don't care anymore.
Honestly, what good is it doing with the media scare tactics to get everyone all riled up about this? Is that really going to get our country on the right track? People read this kind of crap and are either going to be A) scared to go places (i.e. less economic spending), B) Buy into the swine flu koolaid and get the mainstream vaccines going around (risk getting some other serious side effect from lackluster testing of the drugs), or C) Move on with their lives. I choose C.
Either way, enough scare tactics. Boycott the media and lets all get out there and get this country going again. Stop holding every down (referring to the press).

Nate C. of CA 7:21PM August 25, 2009

Japan has government (yes, that means socialized) medicine. It's not the masks, it's the fact that in Japan simply going to the emergency room won't set you back 3 paychecks. Nearly all Americans dying from the flu are uninsured or under-insured.

DLiver420 of CA 7:17PM August 25, 2009