[discostu]

What's up is that reporters desperate for fame ask stupid questions and write sensationalistic stories hoping for their "big break". There's 280 million people in this country, some are bound to get sick, so of those sicknesses will leave doctors scratching their heads. Before 9-11 these things were reported in the Fortean Times if they made the news at all, now every one of the is a "possible terrorist attack". People die from the flu, it happens, it spreads like a mother and people "with no previous contact" get the same strain (contagions spread from one to another, if one guy had contact with 5 people, who spread it to a different 5, then a different 5 then finally the kids you've got 5 kids that never met with the same illness, no suprise there).

This is like Florida in the summer of 01, all those stories about shark attack and everybody thought the sharks had gone bonkers or something and in truth shark attack off the coast of Florida were DOWN by around 40%, but every one made the national news so it seemed up but that was an illusion.

[paix]

Not to sound morbid, but I live less than a mile from a graveyard with MANY children who died around the turn-of-the-century due to flu.