Have there been enough cases in the U.S. yet to “guestimate” mortality rate of this thing? If it is a strange mix of human, avian, swine, etc flu bugs, why are they only referring to it in the news, as ‘SWINE FLU’? Or was that part about the strange mixture incorrect?
DS: To the best of my knowledge the reason they are still calling it “swine flu” in our media is because TWO of the genetic matches in this strain are the N. American Swine Flu, and the Asian/European Swine Flu. The combination of strains they’ve found is NOT false information.
You also have to take into consideration the education level of those in our media... [Remember the idiocy displayed in the election? To think they’d do any better with something even more complicated like medical issues, well... you get the idea].
IMHO, CDC better come up with a new name for this, and quite quickly, or you’re going to have a bunch of people who work in the agricultural industries thinking people are nuts for being worried about this AT ALL...
REGULAR swine flu (which one _portion_ of the genetic sequence of this NEW virus “matches”) — which has been around for QUITE a while is NOT transferable from human to human - is ONLY transferred between an infected pig to humans (for instance a pig farmer might get it, but the doctor coming to his home to treat him, or family members not in direct contact with the infected pig wouldn’t have been at risk — that is NOT the case with this flu).