Swine Flue
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It's funnny how the same people who complain about "us sheeps" being brainwashed by the media et al, are actually the same people who take sensationalism on their own hands! It's like, if you actually believe this crap, then why are you doing "them" a favor?
H1N1 less lethal than feared: U.K. study
The strain of swine flu virus currently circulating around the world is less deadly than previously thought, say British scientists who compared its effect to that of other pandemic viruses.
The 2009 flu pandemic is about 100 times less lethal than the 1918 Spanish flu and nearly 10 times less fatal than the flu pandemics of 1957 and 1968.
Those findings were reported in Thursday's online issue of British Medical Journal, BMJ.
After analyzing British health department data on all reported swine flu patients who were hospitalized between July and Nov. 8 , the researchers estimated that about 26 of every 100,000 people infected with the H1N1 influenza A virus that causes swine flu died. That is a death rate of 0.026 per cent.
The findings are similar to a U.S. study published on Monday that estimated the death rate in the current swine flu pandemic is 0.048 per cent, or one death per every 2,000 cases.
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/10/h1n1-pandemics-study.html
The strain of swine flu virus currently circulating around the world is less deadly than previously thought, say British scientists who compared its effect to that of other pandemic viruses.
The 2009 flu pandemic is about 100 times less lethal than the 1918 Spanish flu and nearly 10 times less fatal than the flu pandemics of 1957 and 1968.
Those findings were reported in Thursday's online issue of British Medical Journal, BMJ.
After analyzing British health department data on all reported swine flu patients who were hospitalized between July and Nov. 8 , the researchers estimated that about 26 of every 100,000 people infected with the H1N1 influenza A virus that causes swine flu died. That is a death rate of 0.026 per cent.
The findings are similar to a U.S. study published on Monday that estimated the death rate in the current swine flu pandemic is 0.048 per cent, or one death per every 2,000 cases.
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/12/10/h1n1-pandemics-study.html
Health bosses accused of flu-mongering
Public health officials are misleading Canadians by continuing to characterize the H1N1 virus as a threat in the hopes of unloading millions of doses of unused vaccine, charges Ontario's former chief medical officer of health.
They are trying to save face because of an expensive overreaction, Dr. Richard Schabas said Thursday as lineups for the vaccine continued to dwindle.
He made his comments the day after the Public Health Agency of Canada unveiled a new advertising campaign aimed at encouraging Canadians to get vaccinated.
"Spending Christmas in bed or in an ICU unit is no fun and the only way to actually avoid that is for a large number of Canadians to be immunized," agency head Dr. David Butler-Jones told a teleconference.
He also said discussions are underway with the World Health Organization on what to do with the surplus vaccine.
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/new...--health-bosses-accused-of-flu-mongering?bn=1
Public health officials are misleading Canadians by continuing to characterize the H1N1 virus as a threat in the hopes of unloading millions of doses of unused vaccine, charges Ontario's former chief medical officer of health.
They are trying to save face because of an expensive overreaction, Dr. Richard Schabas said Thursday as lineups for the vaccine continued to dwindle.
He made his comments the day after the Public Health Agency of Canada unveiled a new advertising campaign aimed at encouraging Canadians to get vaccinated.
"Spending Christmas in bed or in an ICU unit is no fun and the only way to actually avoid that is for a large number of Canadians to be immunized," agency head Dr. David Butler-Jones told a teleconference.
He also said discussions are underway with the World Health Organization on what to do with the surplus vaccine.
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/new...--health-bosses-accused-of-flu-mongering?bn=1
Well, I have no recollection of such "scary Yahoo messages" about a few hundreds of "swine-flu" victims in NZ. I am sure that Obama-driven "doctors" will pump such news through the roof. I saw one kid who was indicated and treated in our local hospital and after 1 week he played with my boys. Nobody else, non official or by street rumors. Its all Grand BS, just like "goat flu" or "bird flu". Imaging how many species out there! I am sure in order to get more entertaining and mistycal we'd have a "Big Panda flu", or "Tasmanian Devil flu" soon. How about a disastrous "Maxican Tushkan" flu??davonz said:
you cannot make this stuff up folks.
would you believe that in this msnbc article dated dec 29th, the HEAD of the WHO, margaret chan, admits she has yet to get her own swine flu vaccination. then she warns us to guard against complacency!! Give me a break.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34620754/ns/health-cold_and_flu/
"Chan acknowledged she had yet to get her own swine flu shot. Only just back from leave, she said she asked her medical service to find out where she can get vaccinated. "
"One thing we need to guard against is the sense of complacency," Chan said, adding that flu viruses are highly unpredictable.
one would think, that as the head of the WHO, she would want to lead by example and be one of the first people to take the shot....right? - especially when she knows that so many people are reluctant to take the shot.
could it be that she knows something that we don't? could it be that she doesn't 100% trust what's in the shot? she continues to fear monger then warns us to guard against being complacent when she herself is doing the exact same thing!!
a hollywood script wouldn't read as good as the fiction these criminals are writing.
would you believe that in this msnbc article dated dec 29th, the HEAD of the WHO, margaret chan, admits she has yet to get her own swine flu vaccination. then she warns us to guard against complacency!! Give me a break.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34620754/ns/health-cold_and_flu/
"Chan acknowledged she had yet to get her own swine flu shot. Only just back from leave, she said she asked her medical service to find out where she can get vaccinated. "
"One thing we need to guard against is the sense of complacency," Chan said, adding that flu viruses are highly unpredictable.
one would think, that as the head of the WHO, she would want to lead by example and be one of the first people to take the shot....right? - especially when she knows that so many people are reluctant to take the shot.
could it be that she knows something that we don't? could it be that she doesn't 100% trust what's in the shot? she continues to fear monger then warns us to guard against being complacent when she herself is doing the exact same thing!!
a hollywood script wouldn't read as good as the fiction these criminals are writing.
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She can get her imunisation in the UK, can't get rid of the stuff
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/ferguswalsh/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/ferguswalsh/
And now the aftermath:
Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms organized a "campaign of panic" to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic.
He believes it is "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century," and he has called for an inquiry.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582749,00.html?mep
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/01/20101111330498806.html
Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms organized a "campaign of panic" to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic.
He believes it is "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century," and he has called for an inquiry.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582749,00.html?mep
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/01/20101111330498806.html
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citygirl said:These threads make me giggle
Funny aren't they? And sorta sad too, no?