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SEANP

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I stand corrected.......... apparently the first cases in Florida have been identified..........
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says the state has its first two confirmed cases of swine flu. Crist says the cases are in Lee and Broward counties, involving an 11-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl.

Florida officials earlier referred eight suspected cases of swine flu to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for more testing from Alachua, Orange, Lee, Broward, Palm Beach and Pinellas counties.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros said labs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now are testing a total of eight possible cases of the deadly swine flu virus from Florida.
 
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SEANP

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I stand corrected.......... apparently the first cases in Florida have been identified..........
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says the state has its first two confirmed cases of swine flu. Crist says the cases are in Lee and Broward counties, involving an 11-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl.

Florida officials earlier referred eight suspected cases of swine flu to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for more testing from Alachua, Orange, Lee, Broward, Palm Beach and Pinellas counties.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros said labs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now are testing a total of eight possible cases of the deadly swine flu virus from Florida.
 
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SEANP

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I stand corrected.......... apparently the first cases in Florida have been identified..........
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says the state has its first two confirmed cases of swine flu. Crist says the cases are in Lee and Broward counties, involving an 11-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl.

Florida officials earlier referred eight suspected cases of swine flu to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for more testing from Alachua, Orange, Lee, Broward, Palm Beach and Pinellas counties.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros said labs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now are testing a total of eight possible cases of the deadly swine flu virus from Florida.
 
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SEANP

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I stand corrected.......... apparently the first cases in Florida have been identified..........
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says the state has its first two confirmed cases of swine flu. Crist says the cases are in Lee and Broward counties, involving an 11-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl.

Florida officials earlier referred eight suspected cases of swine flu to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for more testing from Alachua, Orange, Lee, Broward, Palm Beach and Pinellas counties.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros said labs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now are testing a total of eight possible cases of the deadly swine flu virus from Florida.
 
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SEANP

New member
I stand corrected.......... apparently the first cases in Florida have been identified..........
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says the state has its first two confirmed cases of swine flu. Crist says the cases are in Lee and Broward counties, involving an 11-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl.

Florida officials earlier referred eight suspected cases of swine flu to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for more testing from Alachua, Orange, Lee, Broward, Palm Beach and Pinellas counties.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros said labs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now are testing a total of eight possible cases of the deadly swine flu virus from Florida.
 
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letefk

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I understand the concern; I am leaving for South Dakota in a few days, and I have been doing a lot of thinking and researching.

One thing that has helped me put this swine flu in perspective is to compare the pattern to seasonal flu. Although there is still concern because this is a new strain, so far, infections in the U.S. are tracking very similar to a "typical" flu outbreak, both in severity and in risks for complications. You can find the number comparisons for seasonal flu on the CDC website. The WHO also tracks infection and death rates for seasonal flu every year.

I found this article from WebMD, which is a nice summary of what my own observations of the CDC and WHO data. For me, it really helped put this in perspective. <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090501/putting-swine-flu-in-perspective
">http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-...ne-flu-in-perspective
</a>
My point is just that we all have a lot of experience having to make choices during flu season, and I think we should trust that experience. Despite the initial concerns that this could be a 1918-type H1N1 epidemic, it is behaving more like a seasonal flu. The flu can always be deadly, but it does not get this sort of press coverage. The evidence so far actually does not support the claim we are hearing that swine flu is an especially deadly or dangerous strain than strains that are already out there.

However, the significant difference is that this strain is not going to be covered by the flu shot, so that layer of protection we have with other strains is not there with this one.

I don't know if that helps, but somehow putting it in this way made me able to think more rationally about the choices I had to make.
 
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letefk

New member
I understand the concern; I am leaving for South Dakota in a few days, and I have been doing a lot of thinking and researching.

One thing that has helped me put this swine flu in perspective is to compare the pattern to seasonal flu. Although there is still concern because this is a new strain, so far, infections in the U.S. are tracking very similar to a "typical" flu outbreak, both in severity and in risks for complications. You can find the number comparisons for seasonal flu on the CDC website. The WHO also tracks infection and death rates for seasonal flu every year.

I found this article from WebMD, which is a nice summary of what my own observations of the CDC and WHO data. For me, it really helped put this in perspective. <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090501/putting-swine-flu-in-perspective
">http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-...ne-flu-in-perspective
</a>
My point is just that we all have a lot of experience having to make choices during flu season, and I think we should trust that experience. Despite the initial concerns that this could be a 1918-type H1N1 epidemic, it is behaving more like a seasonal flu. The flu can always be deadly, but it does not get this sort of press coverage. The evidence so far actually does not support the claim we are hearing that swine flu is an especially deadly or dangerous strain than strains that are already out there.

However, the significant difference is that this strain is not going to be covered by the flu shot, so that layer of protection we have with other strains is not there with this one.

I don't know if that helps, but somehow putting it in this way made me able to think more rationally about the choices I had to make.
 
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letefk

New member
I understand the concern; I am leaving for South Dakota in a few days, and I have been doing a lot of thinking and researching.

One thing that has helped me put this swine flu in perspective is to compare the pattern to seasonal flu. Although there is still concern because this is a new strain, so far, infections in the U.S. are tracking very similar to a "typical" flu outbreak, both in severity and in risks for complications. You can find the number comparisons for seasonal flu on the CDC website. The WHO also tracks infection and death rates for seasonal flu every year.

I found this article from WebMD, which is a nice summary of what my own observations of the CDC and WHO data. For me, it really helped put this in perspective. <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090501/putting-swine-flu-in-perspective
">http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-...ne-flu-in-perspective
</a>
My point is just that we all have a lot of experience having to make choices during flu season, and I think we should trust that experience. Despite the initial concerns that this could be a 1918-type H1N1 epidemic, it is behaving more like a seasonal flu. The flu can always be deadly, but it does not get this sort of press coverage. The evidence so far actually does not support the claim we are hearing that swine flu is an especially deadly or dangerous strain than strains that are already out there.

However, the significant difference is that this strain is not going to be covered by the flu shot, so that layer of protection we have with other strains is not there with this one.

I don't know if that helps, but somehow putting it in this way made me able to think more rationally about the choices I had to make.
 
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letefk

New member
I understand the concern; I am leaving for South Dakota in a few days, and I have been doing a lot of thinking and researching.

One thing that has helped me put this swine flu in perspective is to compare the pattern to seasonal flu. Although there is still concern because this is a new strain, so far, infections in the U.S. are tracking very similar to a "typical" flu outbreak, both in severity and in risks for complications. You can find the number comparisons for seasonal flu on the CDC website. The WHO also tracks infection and death rates for seasonal flu every year.

I found this article from WebMD, which is a nice summary of what my own observations of the CDC and WHO data. For me, it really helped put this in perspective. <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090501/putting-swine-flu-in-perspective
">http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-...ne-flu-in-perspective
</a>
My point is just that we all have a lot of experience having to make choices during flu season, and I think we should trust that experience. Despite the initial concerns that this could be a 1918-type H1N1 epidemic, it is behaving more like a seasonal flu. The flu can always be deadly, but it does not get this sort of press coverage. The evidence so far actually does not support the claim we are hearing that swine flu is an especially deadly or dangerous strain than strains that are already out there.

However, the significant difference is that this strain is not going to be covered by the flu shot, so that layer of protection we have with other strains is not there with this one.

I don't know if that helps, but somehow putting it in this way made me able to think more rationally about the choices I had to make.
 
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letefk

New member
I understand the concern; I am leaving for South Dakota in a few days, and I have been doing a lot of thinking and researching.
<br />
<br />One thing that has helped me put this swine flu in perspective is to compare the pattern to seasonal flu. Although there is still concern because this is a new strain, so far, infections in the U.S. are tracking very similar to a "typical" flu outbreak, both in severity and in risks for complications. You can find the number comparisons for seasonal flu on the CDC website. The WHO also tracks infection and death rates for seasonal flu every year.
<br />
<br />I found this article from WebMD, which is a nice summary of what my own observations of the CDC and WHO data. For me, it really helped put this in perspective. <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090501/putting-swine-flu-in-perspective
">http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-...ne-flu-in-perspective
</a><br />
<br />My point is just that we all have a lot of experience having to make choices during flu season, and I think we should trust that experience. Despite the initial concerns that this could be a 1918-type H1N1 epidemic, it is behaving more like a seasonal flu. The flu can always be deadly, but it does not get this sort of press coverage. The evidence so far actually does not support the claim we are hearing that swine flu is an especially deadly or dangerous strain than strains that are already out there.
<br />
<br />However, the significant difference is that this strain is not going to be covered by the flu shot, so that layer of protection we have with other strains is not there with this one.
<br />
<br />I don't know if that helps, but somehow putting it in this way made me able to think more rationally about the choices I had to make.
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