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Swine flu deaths: What you need to know

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:21:00 +0000

Swine flu deaths: What you need to knowRisk of swine flu deaths may be the ultimate concern for most people during this H1N1 flu pandemic.

Chuck

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:54:20 +0000

First, a correction of your reading of the MMWR report. The 22 children with neurodevelopmental conditions were 92% of the 24 children with high-risk conditions, not of the whole group. As 24 of 36 had high risk conditions, this means that fully one-third of the children who died were healthy before catching and dying of the h1n1 flu.

The purpose of the CDC's announcement of the recent rise in reports of pediatric deaths was to alert the public and health care workers to an unusual and early rise of flu fatalities in this flu season. The significance of the number of reported deaths can be better understood if compared with normal flu seasons. I have put together some information comparing this point in the flu season with previous years.

In August and September 2006 there were no pediatric flu deaths.
In August and September 2007 there was 1 pediatric flu death.
In August and September 2008 there were no pediatric flu deaths.
In August and September 2009 there were 37 pediatric flu deaths. This shows how unusual and alarming this season is showing itself.

Actually the official CDC figures are incomplete for this year, because they have to wait for the reports to come up from the county and then the state health departments. More deaths will be added as reports trickle in.

admin

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:20:19 +0000

thanks for the correction. It has been corrected now.

Shar

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:23:06 +0000

It's obvious this article has a thinly disguised anti-vaccine slant. The statistic that alarms me most is that 30% of the people who have died from H1N1 were normal healthy people, mostly young. Read this interview with the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/10/q-a-swine-flu-what-you-need-to-know-.html

According to a World Health Organization report, worldwide 40% of those developing severe cases of H1N1 are healthy people: http://www.canada.com/health/issues+caution+over+monitoring+swine+cases/1924069/story.html

Only pediatric deaths from the flu are required to be reported to health officials. I read an article at a major news source today (I will post the link if I can find it) which said the CDC has simply stopped counting the number of H1N1 flu deaths and hospitalizations in the US. Who knows what the true figures are at this point.

Since the beginning of this pandemic, people have wanted to believe that H1N1 is no worse than the seasonal flu. As of now, in terms of overall fatality rates, it has not been much worse. But the seasonal flu kills the old (90% over 65),the young and the chronically ill. It is virtually unheard of for the "regular" flu to kill healthy young people. As this article mentioned, 76 children have died of H1N1 and the true flu season is just beginning. The usual number of pediatric deaths per flu season is 50 - 75. You'd have to be blind (or in serious denial) not to see the difference between H1N1 and "regular" flu.

I have done extensive research about H1N1 since this spring because everyone in my immediate family is in a high risk category for H1N1 complications. I have incorporated foods and nutritional supplements (including Vitamin D) that may help up deal with H1N1 into our daily routine. We have received our pneumonia vaccines and when the H1N1 vaccine is available, we will be getting it as well. Why does it have to be just one way or the other? I believe in taking the "natural" way to disease prevention and only medicate when necessary, but in the face of a virus that can kill a healthy young person in a matter of days, I won't be popping Vitamin D tablets and hoping for the best.

pam haselow

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:09:04 +0000

who cares if this article has an antivaccine stance? Not wanting to inject yourself or your child with vaccines is a legitimate position and should be respected. And the CDC sites are neutral? It doesn't have to be one way or another but I choose not to believe the doom and gloom hype and will not expose my children or myself to an untested vaccine for what is proving to be a ho-hum illness for most. We are all healthy so that makes my choice much easier.

Ryan

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:46:57 +0000

It seems, that people believe that the flu will attack healthy people, rather than the sick; well in this post, majority of them had underlying health conditions, which means that a majority of them were not healthy. Asthma, is an example of one of those underlying condition, and if you have asthma, that means your not healthy. So a majority are not healthy, apparently.

Well the Government's messages are going to make people get the H1N1 flu, instead of preventing it. They advise people to wash their hands "thoroughly" and "often"; if you follow that advice, your going to get sick. Washing you hands, constantly, is not a healthy option. You may be killing bad germs, but you re also killing good germs. Yes, i said good germs. It is a misconception that germs are always bad; but you actually have germs on your skin, which act as bodyguards against bad germs. So washing your hands, constantly will kill the bad germs, as well as the good germs; which will make you more susceptible to illness.

Since it is most likely for those who don't have enough enough vitamin D, that means people need to start going outside more, and stop wearing sun lotion, because the only thing that sun lotion prevents against, is sunburns. It does not prevent skin cancer, because sun lotion, is most likely the culprit of skin cancer. It stupid how people think, that we need to wash our hands, and wear special ointments, and stuff like that, when humans, have had no need for stuff like that for the majority of human existence. Thousands of years ago, humans would live full lives, and never worry about washing their hands or anything like that. They may have lived shorter lives than us, but they didn't know much about the human body. Without that knowledge, they didn't all just die, they still live good, long lives. I would say, a life expectancy of 40 - 60 years is still pretty good...

Troy

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:16:16 +0000

One thing that gets me is how Medimmune (the company that makes the flumist vaccine) patented their flu vaccine for this exact strain of H1N1 back in 2008. The flumist has a weekend live virus so they would have had to know the exact structure of this virus in ordered to patent the vaccine. http://www.google.com/patents?id=EGSo...
Connecting the dots, we see that AHP changes its corporate name to Wyeth in 2002. We also know that AHP, doing business as "Genetics Institute" was heavily involved in the Ft. Detrick "genetic engineering" of viruses at Ft. Detrick, Maryland under the direction of Terrence Tumpey and Jeffrey Taubenberger during the span of years 1998-2002. From its website, we know that Wyeth: "Employs 1,800, and is one of the largest biopharmaceutical operations in the United States, housing 7 manufacturing sites and 21 bioreactors-further cementing the claim that Boston is the world's premier biotech corridor." This is important to understand, because a "bio-reactor" is a "particle accelerator" by which cellular gene splicing and mutation by computer-generated design can actually take place on a massive scale. In short, this Harvard-based "campus" is one of the few places on the planet where a "reverse-engineered" weaponized virus could be massively produced for commercial (or military) applications.

In 2002, Wyeth announced a joint venture with MedImmune, Inc. to produce a unique INFLUENZA VACCINE called "FluMist". FluMist is unique in the fact that it is a nasal-spray vaccine utilizing LIVE VIRUSES. According to a 2007 Washington Post article, this joint venture dissolved in 2003 thanks to slumping sales - yet, according to The Post's analysis, MedImmune's FluMist product "has potential" if a pandemic influenza vaccine is needed. (This would be especially true if MedImmune could patent the very VIRUSES utilized in its nasal spray product!)

MedImmune's corporate offices and research labs are located in Gaithersberg, Maryland - just down the road from the U.S. Institute of Pathology labs at Ft. Detrick, Maryland where Dr. J. Taubenberger successfully reverse-engineered the deadly 1918 "recombinant" pandemic virus. Shortly after finishing the "resurrection" project, Taubenberger leaves the employ of Ft. Detrick and goes to work for the National Institutes of Health's "National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases." (NIAID).

Completely by coincidence, of course, during this same time frame MedImmune files for PATENT PROTECTION on the genetically altered and reverse-engineered PANDEMIC INFLUENZA VIRUS in 2007!! The patent is granted, and MedImmune then assigns the patent to MedImmune Vaccines Inc. (it's vaccine manufacturing subsidiary) and to Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger's National Institutes of Health. This patent is VITAL in protecting MedImmune's USE OF THE ENGINEERED LIVE VIRUS in its FLuMist product.

FluMist, of course, is the vaccine of choice for use in schools and young children. (Patent protection could never have been granted for a truly "natural" seasonal virus.)

So...trust the government?? or the natural way of vitamin d and healthy living?