Comprehensive swine flu narrative

Although a few days old, this thorough survey of the H1N1 crisis–and the remarkably
inadequate response by the authorities–is well worth close attention, and redistribution.

We need some truth about all this, ASAP.

MCM

How afraid are you? H1N1 @ Day 72 (w/Poll)
BY BOXERDAVE
Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 03:43:51 PM PDT

July 3, 2009, marks the end of the tenth week of the so-called swine flu in the United States. Cases of novel H1N1 influenza in America have been tracked and publicly reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (theCDC) in Atlanta since April 23rd when five persons in California and two persons in Texas contracted the novel flu strain; the World Health Organization (the WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, tracks the virus throughout the world. In the ten weeks the United States has hosted the virus-which first appeared in humans in Mexico in March and early April, 2009, shortly before moving northward-novel H1N1 has pretty much covered the globe with almost half (44%) of the worldwide cases occurring in the United States at last report (by comparison, the U.S. constitutes about 4.5%of the world’s population).

Here’s what’s been happening with H1N1 in the United States during the past ten weeks and what the nation’s disease prevention agency has been doing to keep us up-to-date about the spread of the virus. As you read this diary, please keep in mind that an influenza virus that has graduated to pandemic status-as this one has-is not necessarily cause for alarm and it’s certainly no reason to believe whacked-out conspiracy theories, but it is cause for concern because history has shown us that:

The 1918 flu pandemic (commonly referred to as the Spanish flu) was an influenza pandemic that spread to nearly every part of the world. It was caused by an unusually virulent and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1….The global mortality rate from the 1918/1919 pandemic is not known, but it is estimated that 10% to 20% of those who were infected died. With about a third of the world population infected, this case-fatality ratio means that 3% to 6% of the entire global population died.

Read more:

http://watchingthewatchers.org/article/23201/afraid-you-h1n1-day-72-wpoll

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/3/742208/-How-afraid-are-you-H1N1-@-Day-72-(w-Poll)

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Comprehensive swine flu narrative

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