Dr. William Marshall, an infectious disease specialist at Mayo Clinic provides answers to some common questions about swine flu.
Below is a link to an edited youtube video with Dr. Marshall that you can embed with your stories.
Additional information can be found at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Minnesota Department of Health.
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I have been checking on this swine flu tracking website http://www.swine-flu-tracker.com/ on and off for the last couple of days now and its kinda scary seeing how it this strain of flu is spreading.
The swine flu is spreading very fast, a world map is available on http://www.swinefluworldmap.com/ . It is very scary this is spreading so fast.
This entire swine flu hype is just that. There
are many well documented articles about this
being a HOAX and deliberately created to cause
panic in order to force mandatory vaccinations
which are more dangerous than the flu itself.
Never ever trust the government for the truth.
augustreview.com
mercola.com
No offense Sherry, but that attitude is extrememly naive. The lasrt time a swine flu pandemic scare came about they vaccinated and the vaccine caused more deaths than the flu. They do not want to repeat that event.
This is a serious problem with the potential of being deadly world wide. Thank god we live in a country that has the ability to share so much information on preventing illness and slowly the spread of infectious disease.
I feel sorry for all of the people who have lost loved ones due to this disease so far. You need to open your eyes and give up the conspiracy theory. the government is not out to get you. Grow up.
You’re right Jen, The government is not out to “get you”, just the power to get all of us to bend to their collective will. What better way to chip away at our individual freedoms than to convince us that we must have their “help” in a life or death situation?
I thought it was an over reaction too…Now I have it and I feel like I’ve been hit by several large trucks.
My daughter was diagnosed in February with Influenza A. She was given Relenza which seemed to work well and she recovered within 3 to 4 days.. Will that Flu (type A) give her any antibody protection against the “Swine Flu” that is now circulating?
Swine flu hotline: 989-845-8045
I haven’t seen it on the news much, but for relatives that don’t have access to the Internet it can give up to the minute updates to help them sleep at night.
I am quite concerned for our deployed military. My son is on his second tour in Afghanistan.
These soldiers live in very close quarters (my son has 24 other guys in his tent). They work in close quarters. In many of the remote areas, they have no running water and the only medical care they have is from the medics in their units.
Then you have all the local people that work on the bases on a daily basis. These locals are exposed to the military personnel every day and then go back to their villages.
All it is going to take is for one soldier to come home on their mid-tour two week break, come in contact with someone that has the virus and take it back to their unit.
The environment these troops are serving in will spread this virus like wildfire among our troops and the local populations.
Is there anyone doing anything to keep our soldiers from bringing this virus back to the war zones?
Has anyone been tracking the spread of swine flu on this website http://www.swine-flu-tracker.com/? It seems every time I check it the swine flu spreads.
I found this site that shows an animated map of the swine flu outbreaks with the data from the CDC: http://www.swine-flu-map-animation.com/ It does seem to be increasing, but certainly not the global pandemic everyone is talking about.
Amazing how our government will mask their agendas within these scare tactics and we just bend to their will. I for one am not scared, not willing to accept that Mexico is the doomed hole that our government wants us to think it is. Everyone, be aware: they would have loved to call this the ‘Mexican Flu’.
excellent info. added RSS feed.
South Africa’s first swine flu case – a 12-year-old boy who flew in from the US – has been confirmed.
I just don’t feel the government is telling us everything we need to know. I agree with this blogger here:
http://www.swinefluflash.com/swine-flu-lies-by-the-government/
He says that government is not being straight about who is vulnerable to this.
I’m going to keep my kids at home, until the picture is more clear.
Patty
Interesting stuff. Did you hear that there’s a new strain which is resistant to the anti-flu drugs? Tamiflu etc? Found a really good website for tracking it’s progress, seems to be updated every hour or so… http://www.swinefludeaths.co.uk.
In 1918, we had an attack of flu which was H1N1 type of virus, since then every flu vaccine has H1N1 antigens included to protect us, then why should we fear the swine flu virus which is also H1N1?
Thank you for your comment. It has been forwarded on for an answer.
Dr. William Marshall says: There are many varieties of H1N1 influenza. Unfortunately, exposure to seasonal strains of H1N1 influenza or vaccination against the same does not induce immunity to the pandemic swine-origin H1N1 influenza A that is now circulating.
Overwhelming evidence backed up by publicly available research data shows that vaccines containing Thimeresol harms children’s brains. Even though the pharmaceutical companies and governments won’t admit it, we do not need an official declaration to know that they are in fact unsafe. Both governments and pharmaceutical companies can be found liable if they were to officially admit that Thimerseol in vaccines and other aluminum based ingredients do in fact harm children’s brain. This is why they will not officially declare these types of vaccines unsafe. Visit http://fluhealer.blogspot.com to get your latest Swine Flu Pandemic updates.
Response from Robert Jacobson, M.D.
Thank you for your comment, but we want to be absolutely clear that the most accurate information about vaccines is in the public domain. In response to your comment, it is, in fact, exactly the opposite of what you posted. We have no data supporting the idea that thimerosal in vaccines is harmful. The government and manufacturers removed for purely theoretical reasons the thimerosal from vaccines in the routine childhood vaccines. Since the removal, the data are clear that the removal had no effect whatsoever on children’s health, and we continue to have no data or evidence ever showing the harm of thimerosal in vaccines or not. I would encourage those who wish to review the evidence to access the following web site at the Institute of Medicine (http://www.iom.edu/en/Reports/2003/Immunization-Safety-Review-Thimerosal—Containing-Vaccines-and-Neurodevelopmental-Disorders.aspx) and the associated materials. Bottom line: the IOM’s committee to evaluate all the evidence concluded the following: “The committee found no proof that vaccines with thimerosal are dangerous. The amount of thimerosal in vaccines was low. The effects of such small amounts have not been well studied by scientists.”
Thanks for the info, another resource I found useful was United Healthcare’s presentation on Swine flu. It discusses the symptoms, how to prevent it, and what to do if you have it: http://my.brainshark.com/2009-H1N1-Flu-Swine-Flu-Protecting-Yourself-and-Your-Family-666413744
I had swine flu around Halloween this year and http://www.telldrbob.com/swineflu allowed me to skip a visit to my clinic and hence avoid infecting others. In less than 5 minutes, the website asks you basic questions about your symptoms, existing medical conditions, etc. If you think you may have swine flu, check out the site!
Thanks this has cleared up a few bits of advice I was given that have turned out to be incorrect.
Yeah – a LOT of misinformation on this topic, not least from the manufacturers of Tamiflu who made incorrect claims, widely disputed about the drug’s effectiveness, then “lost” their evidence of tests… after the Governement over-purchased huge stocks… anyone else smell somthing?
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