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Originally Posted by phylicia30
I don't know if every case of this outbreak have been reported to WHO.. but according to their site (27 May '09 updated) there are 13,398 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection, including 95 deaths on 48 countries... do you think that the 1000 people you just stated were not reported??
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True, the reason is that it is normal that this amount of people die every year by a winter influenza in Denmark. Its mostly old people and people that all ready are sick that dies. But nobody notice because this is happening every year and is a normal influenza not a new type of influenza. Remember what happend when columbus took the european flu to America. The indiens died in huge numbers. Why? Because they did not know anything about this sickness.
This the case of the swineflu I think it is interesting to see how fast the focus was taken away for the financial crises. We have a few hundred people sick in mexico, a country there 15.000 people die of HIV every year and more than 50.000 people die enery year from hepatitis and dengue fever mostly because of bad hygiene.
Lets get the focus back on the global problem we are facing. If the credit crises is not taken care of, we will have hepatitis and dengue fever in cities of the USA because of bad hygiene, because of the amount of people living in slum because they had to leave there houses.
The Doc