Swine Flu Counter: US Cases, Sorted By State

Center For Disease Control:

The outbreak of disease in people caused by a new influenza virus of swine origin continues to grow in the United States and internationally. Today, CDC reports additional confirmed human infections, hospitalizations and the nation's first fatality from this outbreak.

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Comments

[leonel]

It might be cheaper to buy all the pig farms and just keep a few clean pigs in zoos, instead of spending billions on new diseases produced by these unfortunate animals. Muslims seem to have figured it out a long time ago.

[BlackYowe]

I read this and it looks to me that there is more than a good chance this is a factory farm produced flu!

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13408

[KillTheMessenger]

When are we going to see the list with AIDS infections? How about one with Hepatitis? MRSA? Legionnaire's disease? Any serious diseases? Why we are wasting so much bandwidth on a rather ordinary flu case is besides me. I could, of course, be wrong. But I don't think so.

[HHUA]

Newsflash... since you apparently aren't getting it... "Swine Flu" is NOT a "rather ordinary flu". The Flu PANDEMIC of 1918 (ie: Swine Flu) killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people worldwide!!! It is extra-ordinary because humans have NO immunity to it (unlike human strains of flu) and also because of its tendency to attack and KILL a high number of HEALTHY YOUNG ADULTS unlike an "ordinary flu" which generally has a much more adverse affect of the very young, sick and aged.

Please avail yourself of the facts and information... Of course, this may not become a Pandemic (and let's pray that it doesn't) but if it does hold on to your hat... er mask!

One more thing... Aids, Hepatitis, etc. are not airborne illnesses that spread rapidly through a population and therefore do not warrant the same type of precautions... Again, get the facts!

[KillTheMessenger]

Biology lesson: the flu virus moves between different species all the time. Ever since humans are living with pigs (and that is a mighty long time now), there was swine flu, i.e. flu around.

"It is extra-ordinary because humans have NO immunity to it"

If humans had no immunity to it we would have seen hundreds, if not thousands of deaths by now. Indeed, almost all reported cases show a rather weakly symptomatic strain.

"Please avail yourself of the facts and information."

I have. All the life scientists I talked to (and I know a lot of them personally) think this is totally blown out of proportion.

"Aids, Hepatitis, etc. are not airborne illnesses that spread rapidly through a population and therefore do not warrant the same type of precautions."

No, they spread through other (well known) channels and based on the current data you are way more likely to die (or at least suffer severe medical complications) from any one of these than from this particular flu. Nevertheless you don't seem to care about them but have chosen to be afraid of something that looks more and more like a poorly handled medical scare without much of a real world counterpart.

[Willow712]

We must remember that the influenza of 1918 was before antibiotics. Most of the people that died then died of secondary infections, such as pneumonia. I am a nurse, and I once took care of a World War I nurse, who told me during WWI, they had two meds--paregoric and digitalis. For wounds, they had sulfa. Medicine has come a long LONG way in 90 years.

The first death in Mexico was a bricklayer who had 6 neighbors raising pigs in their yards (around their houses). He could have had swine flu and any number of infections from feces on the ground, moving into the groundwater, etc. Cholera, yellow fever, etc. That's why we don't have outhouses here, it causes lots of infections, (remember "In Mexico, don't drink the water?")

The Swine flu has been passing back and forth between humans and pigs, birds, etc for millions of years. Sure the virus is mutating, but out antibodies have been fine tuned to account for that.

This really brings out the OCD in a bunch of people. I bet the bank its not going to be as fearful as the media is making it out to be.

[Brandon Krause]

"When are we going to see the list with AIDS infections? How about one with Hepatitis? MRSA? Legionnaire's disease? Any serious diseases? Why we are wasting so much bandwidth on a rather ordinary flu case is besides me. I could, of course, be wrong. But I don't think so."

becaue AIDS is Airborn, and it doesnt kill people as fast as the flu. are you stupid.??

[KillTheMessenger]

AIDS is airborne? Oh, my... and I thought it was transmitted by blood and sexual contact. AIDS might not kill so fast, but unlike the flu it kills every time. Your body can deal with every flu virus by itself (if given enough support) but there is still nothing that can stop the AIDS virus. Given the choice between the Spanish flu and AIDS I will pick the Spanish Flu ever time. And if you are any smart, so will you. And if I have a further choice, I will take this Swine Flu over both of them. Actually, I wouldn't mind getting it right now. Because you know what? Once I had it, I will be, at least partially, immunized against the next one, the one which might be the real killer.

Am I stupid? Compared to some people, yes. Compared to you, not so much.

[KatieMN]

I could not agree more, it is being totally hyped beyond any evidence to suggest it is as dangerous as its being made out to be. It should be a footnote on the news, not center stage.

Not only does it seem like a rather ordinary flu, but not a particularly virulent one. I spoke with a friend of mine to-day - an epidemiologist of some experience, though not involved in this in any way.

He pointed out that the likelihood is that this has been active in Mexico for probably months and that the infection rate there is almost certainly many thousands time more that the confirmed cases (which are only the tip of the iceberg). This means only a minority of people who got it were sick enough to even visit a doctor, and a minority of them were tested. The numbers being thrown around are being grossly misinterpreted.

[KenGirl]

I bet the confirmed deaths are of no concern to you. Anytime 2 or more people die of the same disease caught from one person to another via airbone should be cause for concern for any government.

[quidam56]

MRSA killed more people than AIDS in America last year. Last Fall experts advised children as young as six months get a flu shot because of all the MRSA in our communities, putting the very young at risk, especially when a family has no other choice but to go to an emergency room full of MRSA breeding all over the place. http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=62 Greed in health care is catching up to Wall Street. My father went in for a three day procedure that ended up being a ten month long nightmare, watching him slowly rot to death, yet in Tennessee and Virginia, that's perfectly acceptable health care. A mixture of flu and MRSA isn't going to be pretty...