RED ALERT! The Pandemic Has Started!
Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:36 pm » by Drjones
From Naturalnews.com
Importantly, just as I warned NaturalNews readers many times over the last several years, there is no vaccine for this swine flu
http://www.naturalnews.com/026125.html
In an effort to stem public panic, Mexico is reportedly launching a massive vaccination campaign. This is all theater, of course, since there are no vaccines that target this new H1N1 strain. If anything, the vaccines will actually weaken immune systems, making people more susceptible to H1N1 infection. Thus, Mexico may actually be fanning the flames of this potential pandemic strain.
From Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/ ... 24?sp=true
"A strain of flu never seen before"..
"We're frightened because they say it's not exactly flu, it's another kind of virus and we're not vaccinated," said Angeles Rivera, 34, a government worker who fetched her son from a public kindergarten that was closing".
Most of the dead were aged between 25 and 45, a health official said. It was a worrying sign as seasonal flu can be more deadly among the very young and the very old but a hallmark of pandemics is that they affect healthy young adults.
New scientist magazine
"The H protein on its surface, having hitherto circulated only in pigs, is one most human immune systems have never seen, the crucial requirement for a pandemic flu."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... demic.html
Who knows...
Importantly, just as I warned NaturalNews readers many times over the last several years, there is no vaccine for this swine flu
http://www.naturalnews.com/026125.html
In an effort to stem public panic, Mexico is reportedly launching a massive vaccination campaign. This is all theater, of course, since there are no vaccines that target this new H1N1 strain. If anything, the vaccines will actually weaken immune systems, making people more susceptible to H1N1 infection. Thus, Mexico may actually be fanning the flames of this potential pandemic strain.
From Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/ ... 24?sp=true
"A strain of flu never seen before"..
"We're frightened because they say it's not exactly flu, it's another kind of virus and we're not vaccinated," said Angeles Rivera, 34, a government worker who fetched her son from a public kindergarten that was closing".
Most of the dead were aged between 25 and 45, a health official said. It was a worrying sign as seasonal flu can be more deadly among the very young and the very old but a hallmark of pandemics is that they affect healthy young adults.
New scientist magazine
"The H protein on its surface, having hitherto circulated only in pigs, is one most human immune systems have never seen, the crucial requirement for a pandemic flu."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... demic.html
Who knows...
Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:29 pm » by Spock
cornbread714 wrote:So should I get a flu shot or would I be buying into the NWO fear and vaccination program?
I think it's okay for us to be paranoid. I personally don't believe this has anything to do with a secret agenda whatsoever, and even if that was the case - this is nothing to take lightly. I read that it is most lethal to people between the ages of 25 and 45, isn't that weird - usually it's the young and the old that are the most vulnerable, but this is hitting the people at their prime.
Here's thel ink to that...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24449988.htm
Most Mexico fatal flu victims aged between 25-45
Source: Reuters
MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Reuters) - The majority of the people killed in Mexico's fatal flu outbreak were adults between 25 and 45 years old, a Mexican health official said on Friday.
"The majority were young adults between 25 and 45 years old," the official said under the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press.
Mexican officials said 20 people had been killed by the outbreak in Mexico and 1,004 people had been infected. (Reporting by Mica Rosenberg and Miguel Angel Gutierrez)
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Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:52 pm » by Eaganthorn
Can anyone verify the current CDC status on this? I don’t want to repeat what I just heard and I cannot access the Physicians access to the CDC website myself.
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Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:14 pm » by Reinaul
hi everyone, here in Mexico was also mentioned that this virus is a mix of different stirps, The WHO confirmed that this illnes is caused by a new strip of Influenza A virus, This new strip has 3 different kinds of DNA related to birds, pigs and human Influenza virus.. at this time we (im a MD) dont have a vaccine because of what I told you before.. it's a new virus and the basic influenza vaccine just cover the main strips and the most common ones, it will take some time till we have one, the px are just under anti virals.. hope they work fine
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Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:19 pm » by Cornbread714
This just came in:
http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire ... .com.shtml
I hadn't heard about the possible cases in Queens.
http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire ... .com.shtml
I hadn't heard about the possible cases in Queens.
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Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:42 pm » by Dirtyrabbit
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Texas family quarantined after son contracts swine flu
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/25/sw ... index.html
(CNN) -- As Hayden Henshaw was being rushed to the doctor's office after becoming ill, his father heard that his son's classmates had been struck with the deadly swine flu virus like the one sweeping through Mexico.
Patrick Henshaw called his wife immediately to have Hayden checked for it. Later, they received the bad news.
Hayden had become the third confirmed case of swine flu at his Texas high school. It is a virus that has killed 68 people in Mexico and infected at least eight people in the United States.
Health officials arrived at the Henshaws' house Friday and drew blood from the whole family, then told them to stay inside and away from the public, Henshaw told CNN.
The whole family is quarantined indefinitely, according to CNN-affiliate KABB. Henshaw said his family was shocked when they got the news about their son.
"Stunned. My wife was having a panic attack," Henshaw told the affiliate.
U.S. health officials have expressed concern about U.S. cases of a swine flu virus that has similar characteristics to the fatal virus in Mexico.
More than 1,000 people have fallen ill in Mexico City in a short period of time, U.S. health experts said.
"This situation has been developing quickly," Richard Besser, acting director of the Atlanta, Georgia-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Friday. "This is something we are worried about."
Besser said all of the eight U.S. patients have recovered. Video Watch for more on the U.S. cases »
New York health officials said Friday they were testing about 75 students at a school in New York City for swine flu after the students exhibited flu-like symptoms this week.
A team of state health department doctors and staff went to the St. Francis Preparatory School in the borough of Queens on Thursday after the students reported cough, fever, sore throat, aches and pains.
Test results are expected as early as Saturday.
The new virus has genes from North American swine influenza, avian influenza, human influenza and a form of swine influenza normally found in Asia and Europe, said Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC's Influenza Division.
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Swine flu is caused by a virus similar to a type of flu virus that infects people every year but is a strain typically found only in pigs -- or in people who have direct contact with pigs.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8& ... 896484&z=4
Texas family quarantined after son contracts swine flu
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/25/sw ... index.html
(CNN) -- As Hayden Henshaw was being rushed to the doctor's office after becoming ill, his father heard that his son's classmates had been struck with the deadly swine flu virus like the one sweeping through Mexico.
Patrick Henshaw called his wife immediately to have Hayden checked for it. Later, they received the bad news.
Hayden had become the third confirmed case of swine flu at his Texas high school. It is a virus that has killed 68 people in Mexico and infected at least eight people in the United States.
Health officials arrived at the Henshaws' house Friday and drew blood from the whole family, then told them to stay inside and away from the public, Henshaw told CNN.
The whole family is quarantined indefinitely, according to CNN-affiliate KABB. Henshaw said his family was shocked when they got the news about their son.
"Stunned. My wife was having a panic attack," Henshaw told the affiliate.
U.S. health officials have expressed concern about U.S. cases of a swine flu virus that has similar characteristics to the fatal virus in Mexico.
More than 1,000 people have fallen ill in Mexico City in a short period of time, U.S. health experts said.
"This situation has been developing quickly," Richard Besser, acting director of the Atlanta, Georgia-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Friday. "This is something we are worried about."
Besser said all of the eight U.S. patients have recovered. Video Watch for more on the U.S. cases »
New York health officials said Friday they were testing about 75 students at a school in New York City for swine flu after the students exhibited flu-like symptoms this week.
A team of state health department doctors and staff went to the St. Francis Preparatory School in the borough of Queens on Thursday after the students reported cough, fever, sore throat, aches and pains.
Test results are expected as early as Saturday.
The new virus has genes from North American swine influenza, avian influenza, human influenza and a form of swine influenza normally found in Asia and Europe, said Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC's Influenza Division.
advertisement
Swine flu is caused by a virus similar to a type of flu virus that infects people every year but is a strain typically found only in pigs -- or in people who have direct contact with pigs.
Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:52 pm » by Johnsmith
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/624335
'We have to assume' swine flu is in Ontario, health official warns
April 25, 2009, Megan Ogilvie, HEALTH REPORTER
A new strain of never-before-seen influenza that has surfaced in Mexico and in parts of the U.S. has international health authorities on guard and sparked fears of a worldwide flu pandemic.
Health officials yesterday confirmed the severe respiratory illness that has killed more than 60 people in Mexico appears, in some cases, to be genetically similar to the eight cases of swine flu reported in parts of Texas and Southern California.
The new strain of swine influenza is likely already in Ontario, said Dr. Michael Gardam, one of Ontario's top infectious disease specialists, because about 60,000 people return to the province from Mexico every month.
"We have to assume that it is circulating in Ontario," he said. "You just have to look at air travel patterns to realize that what goes on in Mexico has to come to Canada."
With the spectre of SARS still looming over the Toronto area, local infectious disease experts are emphasizing the new strain of swine flu should not be compared to the severe acute respiratory syndrome that swept the city in 2003 and killed 44 people.
"It is a different virus from what we've seen before," said Gardam, who is director of infectious diseases prevention and control at the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion. "But that is not a comment on how easily it is spread and how sick it would make you."
Scientists around the world are moving quickly to uncover more details of the novel swine flu, a combination of human, swine and avian viruses not previously detected in pigs or humans and which can be spread from human to human. Health officials stress public health alerts and recommendations will change as new facts emerge.
"Our concern has grown since yesterday in light of what we have learned since then," Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control, said at a news teleconference yesterday.
No cases of swine flu have been reported in Canada, and officials said only a "handful" of cases are under investigation here.
The Mexican government has reported more than 900 cases of severe respiratory illness, or SRI, and 62 related deaths, according to a release from the World Health Organization. As of Thursday, there were 854 cases of SRI and 59 deaths in Mexico City, 24 cases and three deaths in San Luis Potosi, in central Mexico, and four cases in Mexicali, near the U.S. border.
Canadian scientists at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirmed 16 of the Mexican cases are Swine Influenza A/H1N1 viruses. The lab received 51 samples from Mexico on Wednesday.
Besser said the CDC found 12 cases are genetically identical to the A/H1N1 viruses from California, where six cases were confirmed in two counties next to the Mexican border. Two more cases have turned up in San Antonio, Tex., and nine cases are under investigation.
The majority of infected individuals in the U.S. had mild symptoms – only one person was kept in hospital – and all have since recovered.
The strain of swine flu is sensitive to antiviral drugs, including the anti-flu drug Tamiflu. Scientists are working to decode the entire DNA of the virus, and the CDC is developing a vaccine.
Canadian and U.S. health officials have not issued travel advisories to California, Texas or Mexico. Public health experts are asking potential travellers to protect themselves from influenza as they would anywhere else at home and abroad by using precautionary measures, such as regular hand washing.
Infectious disease specialists worldwide are worried the new strain of swine flu could lead to an influenza pandemic. Right now, officials say the most concerning factors are the human-to-human spread of an animal influenza virus, that clusters of cases are geographically separated, and that otherwise healthy young adults seem to be most affected by the virus.
Besser said the WHO is convening a group of experts to determine whether the pandemic threat level should be changed. Currently, the world is at level 3 out of a possible six levels, with the sixth level indicating a pandemic.
Mexico's government cancelled classes for millions of children and university students in Mexico City and the surrounding area yesterday. Large concert venues, libraries and museums were also closed.
Dr. Alison McGeer, director of infection control at Mount Sinai Hospital, said it is too early to judge whether the swine flu will turn into a pandemic.
"The critical question of whether it's going to be a pandemic is whether it's going to spread to other countries and how much it's already spread in Mexico," she said. "We simply don't know that today."
'We have to assume' swine flu is in Ontario, health official warns
April 25, 2009, Megan Ogilvie, HEALTH REPORTER
A new strain of never-before-seen influenza that has surfaced in Mexico and in parts of the U.S. has international health authorities on guard and sparked fears of a worldwide flu pandemic.
Health officials yesterday confirmed the severe respiratory illness that has killed more than 60 people in Mexico appears, in some cases, to be genetically similar to the eight cases of swine flu reported in parts of Texas and Southern California.
The new strain of swine influenza is likely already in Ontario, said Dr. Michael Gardam, one of Ontario's top infectious disease specialists, because about 60,000 people return to the province from Mexico every month.
"We have to assume that it is circulating in Ontario," he said. "You just have to look at air travel patterns to realize that what goes on in Mexico has to come to Canada."
With the spectre of SARS still looming over the Toronto area, local infectious disease experts are emphasizing the new strain of swine flu should not be compared to the severe acute respiratory syndrome that swept the city in 2003 and killed 44 people.
"It is a different virus from what we've seen before," said Gardam, who is director of infectious diseases prevention and control at the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion. "But that is not a comment on how easily it is spread and how sick it would make you."
Scientists around the world are moving quickly to uncover more details of the novel swine flu, a combination of human, swine and avian viruses not previously detected in pigs or humans and which can be spread from human to human. Health officials stress public health alerts and recommendations will change as new facts emerge.
"Our concern has grown since yesterday in light of what we have learned since then," Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control, said at a news teleconference yesterday.
No cases of swine flu have been reported in Canada, and officials said only a "handful" of cases are under investigation here.
The Mexican government has reported more than 900 cases of severe respiratory illness, or SRI, and 62 related deaths, according to a release from the World Health Organization. As of Thursday, there were 854 cases of SRI and 59 deaths in Mexico City, 24 cases and three deaths in San Luis Potosi, in central Mexico, and four cases in Mexicali, near the U.S. border.
Canadian scientists at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirmed 16 of the Mexican cases are Swine Influenza A/H1N1 viruses. The lab received 51 samples from Mexico on Wednesday.
Besser said the CDC found 12 cases are genetically identical to the A/H1N1 viruses from California, where six cases were confirmed in two counties next to the Mexican border. Two more cases have turned up in San Antonio, Tex., and nine cases are under investigation.
The majority of infected individuals in the U.S. had mild symptoms – only one person was kept in hospital – and all have since recovered.
The strain of swine flu is sensitive to antiviral drugs, including the anti-flu drug Tamiflu. Scientists are working to decode the entire DNA of the virus, and the CDC is developing a vaccine.
Canadian and U.S. health officials have not issued travel advisories to California, Texas or Mexico. Public health experts are asking potential travellers to protect themselves from influenza as they would anywhere else at home and abroad by using precautionary measures, such as regular hand washing.
Infectious disease specialists worldwide are worried the new strain of swine flu could lead to an influenza pandemic. Right now, officials say the most concerning factors are the human-to-human spread of an animal influenza virus, that clusters of cases are geographically separated, and that otherwise healthy young adults seem to be most affected by the virus.
Besser said the WHO is convening a group of experts to determine whether the pandemic threat level should be changed. Currently, the world is at level 3 out of a possible six levels, with the sixth level indicating a pandemic.
Mexico's government cancelled classes for millions of children and university students in Mexico City and the surrounding area yesterday. Large concert venues, libraries and museums were also closed.
Dr. Alison McGeer, director of infection control at Mount Sinai Hospital, said it is too early to judge whether the swine flu will turn into a pandemic.
"The critical question of whether it's going to be a pandemic is whether it's going to spread to other countries and how much it's already spread in Mexico," she said. "We simply don't know that today."
Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:57 pm » by Johnsmith
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2446309020090425?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
Worried about swine flu? Wash your hands
Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:00am EDT
* Virus is carried on hands
* Simple hygiene measures are highly effective
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - Worried about swine flu? There is one easy way to protect against infection, health experts agree -- handwashing.
Global health officials are worried about an unusual new strain of flu that may have killed as many as 68 people in Mexico, with 1,000 showing possible symptoms. It has infected at least eight people in the United States. [ID:nN24462379]
Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the California Department of Public Health said they expected to find more cases in the coming days and weeks.
Little can be done to prevent an outbreak of flu from spreading, health experts caution, but they say common sense measures can help individuals protect themselves.
Number one is hand-washing, they say -- a surprisingly effective way to prevent all sorts of diseases, including ordinary influenza and the new and mysterious swine flu virus.
"Cover your cough or your sneeze, wash your hands frequently," advised Dr. Richard Besser, acting CDC director.
Influenza can spread in coughs or sneezes, but an increasing body of evidence shows little particles of virus can linger on tabletops, telephones and other surfaces and be transferred via the fingers to the mouth, nose or eyes.
Alcohol-based gel or foam hand sanitizers work well to destroy viruses and bacteria.
Anyone with flu-like symptoms such as a sudden fever, cough or muscle aches should stay away from work or public transportation and should see a doctor to be tested.
STAYING HOME
"If you have the flu, then you shouldn't be getting on the bus or getting on the plane and traveling," Besser told reporters in a telephone briefing.
"Social distancing" is another tactic. It means staying away from other people who might be infected and can include avoiding large gatherings, spreading out a little at work, or perhaps staying home and lying low if an infection is spreading in a community.
Flu experts have also long advised against trying to stockpile personal supplies of antivirals.
Tamiflu and Relenza are two drugs shown to work against the current strains of seasonal influenza. Tamiflu or oseltamivir, invented by Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD.O) and marketed by Roche AG (ROG.VX), is a pill while GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK.L) (GSK.N) Relenza, known generically as zanamivir, is inhaled.
Both drugs treat a flu infection, making it less serious and perhaps making the illness last fewer days. But they must be taken within 48 hours of the first symptoms to do any good.
They can also prevent infection with garden-variety flu if taken, for example, by a family member caring for a sick relative. No one knows if they will do the same with the new swine flu.
And the average person is not going to know when, precisely, to begin taking the drug. Many infections look like flu, says pediatrician and immunologist Dr. Anne Moscona of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
Viruses and bacteria alike can evolve resistance to drugs they encounter frequently. "If you have Tamiflu at home and you take it for a cold or give it for a respiratory virus that is not influenza, we will be unable to use these drugs when we encounter a lethal strain of flu," Moscona says. (Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Worried about swine flu? Wash your hands
Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:00am EDT
* Virus is carried on hands
* Simple hygiene measures are highly effective
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - Worried about swine flu? There is one easy way to protect against infection, health experts agree -- handwashing.
Global health officials are worried about an unusual new strain of flu that may have killed as many as 68 people in Mexico, with 1,000 showing possible symptoms. It has infected at least eight people in the United States. [ID:nN24462379]
Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the California Department of Public Health said they expected to find more cases in the coming days and weeks.
Little can be done to prevent an outbreak of flu from spreading, health experts caution, but they say common sense measures can help individuals protect themselves.
Number one is hand-washing, they say -- a surprisingly effective way to prevent all sorts of diseases, including ordinary influenza and the new and mysterious swine flu virus.
"Cover your cough or your sneeze, wash your hands frequently," advised Dr. Richard Besser, acting CDC director.
Influenza can spread in coughs or sneezes, but an increasing body of evidence shows little particles of virus can linger on tabletops, telephones and other surfaces and be transferred via the fingers to the mouth, nose or eyes.
Alcohol-based gel or foam hand sanitizers work well to destroy viruses and bacteria.
Anyone with flu-like symptoms such as a sudden fever, cough or muscle aches should stay away from work or public transportation and should see a doctor to be tested.
STAYING HOME
"If you have the flu, then you shouldn't be getting on the bus or getting on the plane and traveling," Besser told reporters in a telephone briefing.
"Social distancing" is another tactic. It means staying away from other people who might be infected and can include avoiding large gatherings, spreading out a little at work, or perhaps staying home and lying low if an infection is spreading in a community.
Flu experts have also long advised against trying to stockpile personal supplies of antivirals.
Tamiflu and Relenza are two drugs shown to work against the current strains of seasonal influenza. Tamiflu or oseltamivir, invented by Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD.O) and marketed by Roche AG (ROG.VX), is a pill while GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK.L) (GSK.N) Relenza, known generically as zanamivir, is inhaled.
Both drugs treat a flu infection, making it less serious and perhaps making the illness last fewer days. But they must be taken within 48 hours of the first symptoms to do any good.
They can also prevent infection with garden-variety flu if taken, for example, by a family member caring for a sick relative. No one knows if they will do the same with the new swine flu.
And the average person is not going to know when, precisely, to begin taking the drug. Many infections look like flu, says pediatrician and immunologist Dr. Anne Moscona of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
Viruses and bacteria alike can evolve resistance to drugs they encounter frequently. "If you have Tamiflu at home and you take it for a cold or give it for a respiratory virus that is not influenza, we will be unable to use these drugs when we encounter a lethal strain of flu," Moscona says. (Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:14 pm » by Drextin
As with all past pandemic scares they usually peak in third world countries with some spreading to north america where they die out within months if not sooner.
No great big plot by an evil organization just another mutation of the flu virus that caught them off guard. Every year they have to guess what strain of the flu will be the most relevant and provide vaccines for it. It's always been a guessing game with new strains coming and going all the time.
As for those wondering if they should get a flu shot.........well that is up to you but they have no vaccine for this strain so it wouldn't matter anyway. They always say get the shot even when it wouldn't help.
Had the strain started in a more developed country then you might have had a real concern.
Don't get me wrong......be cautious but this isn't an attack nor a evil plot.
So far this isn't even up there with the bird flu scare that promised to wipe us all out.........never happened.
No great big plot by an evil organization just another mutation of the flu virus that caught them off guard. Every year they have to guess what strain of the flu will be the most relevant and provide vaccines for it. It's always been a guessing game with new strains coming and going all the time.
As for those wondering if they should get a flu shot.........well that is up to you but they have no vaccine for this strain so it wouldn't matter anyway. They always say get the shot even when it wouldn't help.
Had the strain started in a more developed country then you might have had a real concern.
Don't get me wrong......be cautious but this isn't an attack nor a evil plot.
So far this isn't even up there with the bird flu scare that promised to wipe us all out.........never happened.
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Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:31 pm » by Cornbread714
drextin wrote:As with all past pandemic scares they usually peak in third world countries with some spreading to north america where they die out within months if not sooner.
No great big plot by an evil organization just another mutation of the flu virus that caught them off guard. Every year they have to guess what strain of the flu will be the most relevant and provide vaccines for it. It's always been a guessing game with new strains coming and going all the time.
As for those wondering if they should get a flu shot.........well that is up to you but they have no vaccine for this strain so it wouldn't matter anyway. They always say get the shot even when it wouldn't help.
Had the strain started in a more developed country then you might have had a real concern.
Don't get me wrong......be cautious but this isn't an attack nor a evil plot.
So far this isn't even up there with the bird flu scare that promised to wipe us all out.........never happened.
I hope you are right. Personally I don't get flu shots, I was asking earlier to see what people thought. I'll take my chances.
In the article I posted above they are claiming that the vaccines "seem" to be effective, and that report is only a couple of hours old, so maybe they've been testing and just found out. But "seems" is not a very definite-sounding word.
And I do think it's possible to be "caught off-guard" big-time. Even the CDC acknowledges that
I'm by no means inciting panic, but this could be quite nasty. I certainly wouldn't dismiss it yet.
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