Completely out of the blue:
Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu — about four times the estimate they’ve been using.
The new, higher figure was first reported by The New York Times. It includes deaths caused by complications related to swine flu, including pneumonia and bacterial infections. Until now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had conservatively put the U.S. swine flu death count at more than 1,000. Officials said this week they’re working on an even more accurate calculation.
The CDC says ”many millions” of Americans have caught the pandemic flu virus since it first appeared in April.
ONLY pigs get swine flu because they are pigs. A human can’t get swine flu, because swine is the adjective describing who the flu is applied to. The word flu already describes a complex condition of the human body or mammal, and all flus are caused by multiple factors, not one virus. The cold weather is one primary factor as the body’s primary function is maintaining temperature by heating and cooling. When the weather gets cold all of a sudden people get flu, correction, they create flu. People eat crap foods, full of oils, and sugar, and the bacteria and fungus floating in the air gets in the lungs and grows like crazy on the oil slicks and the sugar. Why doesn’t your government tell you this?
#21 – Put your tinfoil hat back on and go back to your book on old wives’ tales.
#18 – Sister, I feel undereducated or unenlightened: WTF is TFLTR?
On the good side, 4 more people had died from H1N1 virus here in San Diego. So that’ll be 4004 now. Yay.
#21, 123 flu,
Why doesn’t your government tell you this?
Because it is bullshit and completely disproved by common medical knowledge.
and all flus are caused by multiple factors, not one virus.
Influenza is one virus with many strains. Read that again, ONE VIRUS. If it isn’t the (in)flu(enza), then it isn’t the flu.
#15, Dr. Dudd,
The Age of Information has rapidly declined into the Age of Misinformation.
A tactic taken to extremes by the right wing nuts. A group of whom you are a charter member.
i FIND IT HUMOROUS THAT, in the OLD days of Smoking in bars and clubs there are a GREAT air cleaner used to keep many smoke free.
And they cant run these on BUS and Trains??
Sounds like they’re “calculating” the swine flu numbers, the same way they do for Global Warming. Always projected to be far worse than is currently measurable. Or worse than any real hard data substantiates. Back when Gays with AIDS were first dying of various opportunistic infections, I’ll just bet they weren’t recording the deaths due to AIDS. But if it’ll help SELL the anti-virus. Hell, even motor vehicle deaths will be blamed on Swine Flu. Catch the flu, sneeze, crash your car and die. Another Swine Flu death, right? But if you had your cellphone in your hand, that’s not counted as a cause. The Flu trumps the truth, cause there’s vaccine money involved.
You know it wouldn’t surprise me to learn someday that the reason this flu strain was so long lived, was that someone was preserving it and reseeding thru the population. This certainly came along just when the medical profession needed the business.
#25-Mr Fusion-A tactic taken to extremes by the right wing nuts. A group of whom you are a charter member.
Conservative to the bone – and lovin’ it.
The right is certainly not without guilt, but with the help of willing media stooges the left has taken misinformation into new depths.
You halfway expect politicians to become slimy. You just hate to see it when a free press voluntarily becomes their lapdog.