This is not the exact same flu. This is a strain of it. I won’t say head for the hills but there is a reason why the CDC and virologists are watching it very closely, when a virus mutates a lot of bad things can happen.
This is not the exact same flu. This is a strain of it. I won’t say head for the hills but there is a reason why the CDC and virologists are watching it very closely, when a virus mutates a lot of bad things can happen. ..... aft_lizard
Do 30,000 Americans die of the flu every year.
Yep.
Who are they?
Mostly the old and the immune-compromised.
What's so different about this strain?
When 86 year old Mrs. Bernstein dies of a particular flu strain, that's just The Natural Order of Things.
When two healthy 27 year old medical interns die in the same hospital of a particular flu strain, you have a very nasty, newly-mutated bug.
Regardless of Obama's opinion of himself, not everything is about him.
This is a big story in South America where Mexican passengers are being denied entry into the country if they arrive with a fever.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes a new and nasty strain of killer flu is a new and nasty strain of killer flu.
“when a virus mutates a lot of bad things can happen.”
Something bad CAN happen, or nothing can happen. Let’s all panic just to be safe.
OK a challenge is a challenge. Fair and square.
In response to the challenge in post 52. Doesn’t the CDC report to the NHS, the Department of Health and Human Services, which reports to the Executive Branch?
Which reports to Obama?
I mean I’m not trying to don a tin foil hat here - but this administration has shown a (very) strong willingness to politicize just about anything.
I’m sure not a few FReepers will recognize that as a fact.
OK now. On to the next post.
(whew) This honest challenge stuff is sort of fun.
BRB... :)