•Swine Flu May Infect Half of Population in U.S., Kill 90,000, Study Says

[Maverickz]

Déjà vu:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171215

 

[jprad]

Quote from PAPA ROACH:

so 150 million americans get it and 90 thousand die, that's 0.0006% mortality rate, I believe that is no different than seasonal flu. Seasonal flu kills 36 thou on less infections.

Now if this shit mutates with h5n1, then I would be worried.

Completely agree.

The strains you need to worry about, like the one that caused the 1918 flu epidemic, were deadly because they caused a cytokine storm in healthy individuals with a functional immune system.

So far, this year's version does not indicate that sort of immune response in healthy people.

Stay away from any friggin' flu shot, IMHO...

 

[Ivanovich]

Quote from IanMacQuaide:


If 30% of the USA gets sick cuz of a "new flu", and stays home, or can't work, that's a LOT of everyday working folk not doing what we need done on a daily basis.

Yeah, then we essentially turn into France for a few weeks.

 

[Andromeda]

http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/

 

[4444CJones4444]

Quote from Andromeda:

http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/

It's interesting how the confirmed cases are distributed across the globe. Either Russians are immune to this variety of flu or the gov't refuses to report accurate numbers.

As of today, the U.S. has 57236 confirmed cases and flu season hasn't even started. It seems like yesterday when the world was having a fit over the 1000+ cases in Mexico and the handful of confirmed cases in Texas and New York.

 

[IanMacQuaide]

Quote from 4444CJones4444:

It's interesting how the confirmed cases are distributed across the globe. Either Russians are immune to this variety of flu or the gov't refuses to report accurate numbers.

As of today, the U.S. has 57236 confirmed cases and flu season hasn't even started. It seems like yesterday when the world was having a fit over the 1000+ cases in Mexico and the handful of confirmed cases in Texas and New York.

I read that CDC and WHO stopped counting new cases, and even stopped counting deaths.

 

[ByLoSellHi]

With such a low mortality rate as a % of infected people, even though this is apparently a very easily transmitted virus, I am leery of the cost-benefit (health wise) analysis of getting yet another vaccine, that may or may not work.

 

[IanMacQuaide]

Quote from ByLoSellHi:

With such a low mortality rate as a % of infected people, even though this is apparently a very easily transmitted virus, I am leery of the cost-benefit (health wise) analysis of getting yet another vaccine, that may or may not work.

And will do "God knows what?" to those injected with it.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from IanMacQuaide:

And will do "God knows what?" to those injected with it.

Yeah, that. And with a low mortality rate, probably more will die from vaccine complications than the flu itself.... even if there were no "God knows what".

 

[ehorn]

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