Comments on: Bowdoin College hit hard by swine flu http://mainecampus.com/2009/10/01/bowdoin-college-hit-hard-by-swine-flu/ The University of Maine student newspaper since 1875 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Warning http://mainecampus.com/2009/10/01/bowdoin-college-hit-hard-by-swine-flu/#comment-3321 Warning Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:59 +0000 http://mainecampus.com/?p=3723677#comment-3321 That's not entirely true. Just take a look at how quickly healthy kids are falling in Texas where flu activity is already rated "intense" for this 2nd wave. We're not even in "flu season" yet. Also, take a look at the article above...they are NOT testing these people anymore so the number of H1N1 cases are not being tallied accurately. It gives you a false sense of security to see only 388 cases. There's a whole lot more than that! Several other points you can confirm yourself by going to the CDC website. 1)The rapid flu test that is often given to ease everyones mind, has a significant FALSE NEGATIVE rate for H1N1...but you feel a sense of relief when you get the "negative" result, don't you? http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5837a1.htm The specific H1N1 flu test is pretty much not being administered anymore unless you are hospitalized or dead. 2)There is NO FEVER present in up to 40% of H1N1 cases. http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/schools/technicalreport.htm#screen 3)It is possible to shed the virus for up to 10 days...so 24hrs post fever isn't reassuring. http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/schools/technicalreport.htm Do your research people. Don't just believe the media releases. The CDC and HHS are trying hard to keep everyone from panicking so they lie by omission...probably worried more about the economy than lives. That’s not entirely true. Just take a look at how quickly healthy kids are falling in Texas where flu activity is already rated “intense” for this 2nd wave. We’re not even in “flu season” yet.

Also, take a look at the article above…they are NOT testing these people anymore so the number of H1N1 cases are not being tallied accurately. It gives you a false sense of security to see only 388 cases. There’s a whole lot more than that!

Several other points you can confirm yourself by going to the CDC website.

1)The rapid flu test that is often given to ease everyones mind, has a significant FALSE NEGATIVE rate for H1N1…but you feel a sense of relief when you get the “negative” result, don’t you?

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5837a1.htm

The specific H1N1 flu test is pretty much not being administered anymore unless you are hospitalized or dead.

2)There is NO FEVER present in up to 40% of H1N1 cases.

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/schools/technicalreport.htm#screen

3)It is possible to shed the virus for up to 10 days…so 24hrs post fever isn’t reassuring.
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/schools/technicalreport.htm

Do your research people. Don’t just believe the media releases. The CDC and HHS are trying hard to keep everyone from panicking so they lie by omission…probably worried more about the economy than lives.

]]> By: Swine Flu In India http://mainecampus.com/2009/10/01/bowdoin-college-hit-hard-by-swine-flu/#comment-3310 Swine Flu In India Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:56:25 +0000 http://mainecampus.com/?p=3723677#comment-3310 H1N1 is not any more deadly than seasonal influenza so far but it attacks a younger age group than seasonal flu does and because virtually the entire population lacks immunity, it can infect far more people at once than seasonal flu usually does.Take proper measures to avoid this. H1N1 is not any more deadly than seasonal influenza so far but it attacks a younger age group than seasonal flu does and because virtually the entire population lacks immunity, it can infect far more people at once than seasonal flu usually does.Take proper measures to avoid this.

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