Posted on 04/29/2009 3:44:50 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - A government official confirmed the first U.S. death from the new H1N1 swine flu on Wednesday, a 23-month-old child who died in Texas.
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I just heard this reported on Fox. Hoo Boy, prayers up..........
oh rats, the headline lead me to believe that the first death from this flu was a gov official.
So what does that bring the death rate to? Compared with other flus?
And I know exactly which one I wish it had been, too.
U.S. health experts noted, that deaths from influenza are common. In an
average year in the United States, about 35,000 people die ftom flu-related causes each year, and in bad years nearly twice that number. Such deaths are most often among the very young and the elderly.
In my opinion in the USA this is a mild flu. It has not spread fast as a
severe strain should act.
In the USA 100 people die from the flu each day on average.
Swine flu will not be the killer the Mass Media hopes for.......
The death of a two year old, so full of life....is lousy.
Prayers to this family. I can’t even imagine how awful...
sad... :(
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml
I think the major difference is the age group the death from the swine flu will come from. While there may be deaths associated with the flu yearly in the US, it is primarily the elderly who is hit the hardest by it. With this strain - it is pretty much everyone, and that is the scary part about this.
I believe it’s time to panic.
Well for me, there’s SO MANY to choose from. I’d have to ponder it!
Why haven't the airports been closed??? Why haven't the borders been shut???
Why hasn't the government issued at least one of those goofy...er...er...life saving masks to every man, woman and child???
This is, of course, a tragedy for a family. It's also a dream come true for network news people!
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired because the people I work with who were born and raised in foreign countries use their vacation time to visit those countries and then come back to work with some nasty-ass sickness and spread that sickness to everyone else in the office.
Prayers for the family. Pandemic flus have happened every now and then throughout human history. Lets pray this one doesn’t reach that level.
“Why haven’t the airports been closed??? Why haven’t the borders been shut???”
Wouldn’t stop it from coming in at this point. By the time a potential problem is detected in the age of international travel it would already have spread. And we can’t shut down international commerce completely.=
“While there may be deaths associated with the flu yearly in the US, it is primarily the elderly who is hit the hardest by it.”
Actually it’s both those over 70 and those under 5 that are the hardest hit normally.
While this is surely bad enough, imagine the heartbreak a century or more ago. Cemeteries are crammed full of early childhood graves, dead of things that we now routinely beat with a few dollars worth of drugs.
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