Experts to Review Status of Flu Pandemic on Tuesday
An expert panel that advises the World Health Organization on pandemics will meet on Tuesday to decide whether to declare the H1N1 flu outbreak over. Full Story »
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Michael Bugeja - May 31, 2010 - 4:30 PM PDT
This is poor quality journalism on the one hand, and good follow-up on the other, concerning a story that occupied us for two years and that I and others familiar with the Centers for Disease Control suspected was exaggerated--as my posts to NewsTrust.net will show: the so-called swine flu pandemic, on which our government spent billions. Vaccines were late or recalled, just as in 1976.
A mere 2,125 deaths were attributed to H1N1 in 2009 by the CDC in the United States, with total flu deaths approaching 42,000. (Seasonal flu kills 36,000+ each year.)
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