Thread: Seriousness Run for the Hills! Swine Flu!
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Old 05-08-2009, 10:02 AM   #166
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Heres my concern.

Yes, the "swine flu" cases are dying down, and the entire episode is being downplayed. Schools are being criticized for overreacting and closing. Perhaps they shouldn't have closed, I don't know. We are being told that the media has overplayed this, and we have way more deaths years from regular flu, so why worry? This is all true.

However, the great pandemic of 1918 started in the spring of 1918, came back with a vengeance in the late fall of 1918, and again in the spring of 1919. Here is a link to an interesting article.

http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/the_pandemic/01.htm

IF this particular strain should mutate and re-visit us this fall, we may be in for a bumpy ride.

Hopefully, the shots being developed now for this strain will work for the next.
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