[AlternativeAnswers] Re: swine? flu : just an Hoax more..and a joke.




First :

The latest H1N1 virus is somewhat more worrying than H5N1 because of the greater ease with which swine viruses can be passed from pig to human, and thereafter from human to human. Pigs are very efficient vectors for human disease, as the recent Ecologist Film Unit documentary short, Sick as a Pig:
http://www.theecologist.org/pages/ecologist_media.asp?podcast_id=108

How deadly is the flu?
According to the UK Department of Health (DOH), 3,000 to 4,000 excess deaths are attributable to flu in non-epidemic years. During epidemics this figure rises; in 1989-90 there were apparently 30,000 excess deaths in Great Britain attributable to flu. The new DOH 'factsheet' Influenza: The Disease and The Vaccine goes further, estimating that an additional 12,500 people die each year during the flu season in England and Wales. In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website notes that, on average, 36,000 people die each year from flu in the US.

Contrast these figures with those from the Office for National Statistics, which show that in 2004 only 33 people died of influenza in England and Wales, and the CDC's own data showing that in 2002 just 753 people died from flu and in 2001 only 257.

The discrepancy between actual deaths and those reported in 'factsheets' arises from the practice of combining flu deaths with a percentage of those from pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, making flu appear more deadly than it is.

The most recent CDC National Vital Statistics Report, for example, lists influenza and pneumonia as the seventh leading cause of death in 2002. Break down the figures and you find that only 753 of those deaths were flu-associated, while 65,321 were pneumonia-associated. If all flu-associated deaths are removed, pneumonia-associated deaths would still rank number 7, but influenza would barely register on the medical radar.

The whole truth?
In the UK, total flu deaths are also the result of combining influenza and pneumonia deaths, but the DOH's influenza factsheet goes further combining data on flu, pneumonia and bronchitis, to paint its dramatic picture of fl u-related mortality. In small print it acknowledges: 'It is difficult to establish how many people are seriously affected by flu each year as hospital admissions and deaths may be due to complications or the infection making other illnesses worse.'

In other words they are guessing and it is the laziest kind of guesswork since the winter season can bring about a whole range of health complications, including higher cholesterol levels and worsening glucose control, which have nothing at all to do with viruses. In fact, according to a 2002 report published in the British Medical Journal in which British scientists tracked the causes of excess winter deaths over the preceding 10 years, flu accounted for less than three per cent of all excess winter deaths in the UK (a higher figure than in other developed countries). In this country 'cold stress' – lack of adequate heating indoors and lack of appropriate winter clothing when outdoors – was the bigger killer.

Health professionals justify combining flu deaths with pneumonia deaths by insisting that 'influenza leads to pneumonia', but the facts don't generally support this. The American Lung Association, for instance, acknowledges over 30 different causes of pneumonia (one of which is influenza). A single bacterium – Streptococcus pneumoniae – is responsible for up to 50 per cent of all cases of pneumonia. Pneumonia is also caused by other bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Pertussis (whooping cough), Streptococci, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae (a common cause of walking pneumonia). There are also many noninfectious causes of pneumonia such as asthma, aspiration of fluids, toxic exposures and immunodeficiency.
Read full post at :
http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=2315

This is how governments and pharmaceuticals scare people to justify useless vaccines...
If you want to be scare that s up to you ! I just look at the numbers ..

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The orders for Tamaflu of several Billions dollar between England and the US was passed in 2005 . I am not including Australia and New Zeland, part of Asia and the rest of Europe. Do you think all the orders where delivers the same day ?
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