What the hell is swine flu? Is there really a cure for it or do people just die? Can the authorities be trusted, as they love to hide everything for a long time?
It has been reported that 3 people have died due to swine flu in Karachi & there are 42 more positive cases of swine flu...which means there ought to be more, as statistics over here can’t be trusted.
I’ve heard & even seen that they take more than a week to give the blood test report. It shows how inefficient professionals are about their work. Meanwhile the patient may die, but who actually cares about it.
Anyhow, confirmed & suspected swine flu patients are mostly teenagers & people in their 20s. Well this is about Karachi & I don’t know about other places. They are saying that people suspected of this flu should stay back at home & avoid other people as the disease can be transmitted very easily through respiratory droplets.
“Mild symptoms may include fever, sore throat, cough, headache, muscle or joint pains, and nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. Those at risk of a more severe infection include: asthmatics, diabetics, those with obesity, heart disease, the immunocompromised, children with neurodevelopmental conditions, and pregnant women…Currently, there are 12,121 confirmed deaths worldwide. This figure is a sum of confirmed deaths reported by national authorities and the WHO states that total mortality (including deaths unconfirmed or unreported) from the new H1N1 strain is "unquestionably higher" than this.”
And it is wrongly presumed that swine flu is spread by eating pork or being around pigs. It’s a virus that contains a combination of genes from swine, avian & human influenza viruses.
I also read elsewhere:
“By May 11, 2009, a swine flu detected just two months earlier in an outbreak in Mexico and the United States had spread to 30 countries raising the threat level to 5 on the global flu scale. On June 11, 2009, the director-general of the World Health Organization further elevated it to level 6: a flu pandemic. While alarming, this should not have been a complete surprise as leading scientists have, for years, been foretelling a flu pandemic was "not a matter of if, but when."
“But couldn't we learn so much more, so much faster if we just asked people without discrimination "are you sick?" during this critical time of pandemic flu? In the future, perhaps one won't even have to be asked, but we are now in the present. Are we tracking the first flu pandemic of the 21st Century, or are we watching it? History will decide.”
