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Quote: from TheatreMinelli at 6:30 am on May 4, 2009

Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 1:44 am on May 4, 2009
Except it's not, not any more than the seasonal flu, and I'll thank you to show recent evidence that says otherwise.

Look at any BBC article on it (can't be bothered to go through them all) and it claims it affects the respiritory system more than seasonal flu, thus putting a larger number of people at risk. Also the fact that we have no immunity against the new strain makes it mroe serious. I'm sure the people at the WHO know what theya re doing, and if it were just a case of the sniffles would not be wasting so much money. They are also pretty sure that a second more virulent wave is coming in the winter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8021958.stm
Look at that for starters then you can have a look around.

I'm sure they do, particularly as they've said, as recently as this morning, that it's not that bad:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090504/ts_nm/us_flu_who_pandemic

"Level 6 does not mean, in any way, that we are facing the end of the world. It is important to make this clear because (otherwise) when we announce level 6 it will cause an unnecessary panic," she told Spanish newspaper El Pais.
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On Sunday, a WHO spokesman said the relatively large number of infections in Spain of what has been commonly known as swine flu -- at 40, according to the WHO's count -- seemed to be mainly "imported" cases involving people returning from Mexico, the epicenter of the disease outbreak.
Chan echoed this and said that so far, there were not many flu patients in Europe that have not been to Mexico or had direct contact with those who had.

I mean, seriously...good grief! The sky is still not falling, and there's no need to wring our hands and weep until we know what this thing is going to do. It's most likely going to be another seasonal flu, maybe a little bit more widespread because of the lack of immunity, but as you'll notice that people in countries with somewhat decent healthcare systems aren't dying, I think you should relax and go worry about something else that can be panic-inducing. Like global warming.

And no, it doesn't make it less tragic that the child was from Mexico; what it makes it is false reporting. The way it's been reported has suggested that it was an American who died, which is not the case. And yes, it does make quite a lot of difference, as much difference as it would make for someone who'd had bad healthcare all his life to go to the world's greatest hospital to get treatment and die within.

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