Tonight’s news broadcasts recounted the terrible death toll from the H1N1 flu. Just as they sensationalize the economic recession stories, they forget some important key concepts about the flu. The Los Angeles Times Report “Scientists say virus may not be as bad as first feared” has a few key statements as below…
In fact, the current outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which emerged in San Diego and Mexico late last month, may not even do as much damage as the run-of-the-mill flu outbreaks that occur each winter without much fanfare.
“Let’s not lose track of the fact that the normal seasonal influenza is a huge public health problem that kills tens of thousands of people in the U.S. alone and hundreds of thousands around the world,” said Dr. Christopher Olsen, a molecular virologist who studies swine flu at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine in Madison.
Read the whole report here…
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