by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
While this scenario sounds rather unreal, this is what the US Government believes could happen and is trying to prepare for.
This possibility has federal officials leaning on drug makers to somehow make it available as early as September 2009.
The only problem that I can see is that we are going to get a vaccine that is untested and maybe dangerous, more dangerous than the flu itself.
Let's face it; so far the illnesses have been rather mild with a only a relatively small number of deaths.
The US authorities, however, believe that 60-120 million Americans could get sick from the swine flu this fall and winter with another 30 million being infected but not showing any symptoms.
They reckon that as many as 1.8 million Americans could be hospitalized and as man as 90,000 could die and, according to the authorities that would be more than twice the deaths of a normal flu season.
I find the latter statement hard to believe as, if I understand it correctly, about 100,000+ die each year in Britain alone from seasonal flu. Who is telling porkies here?
US Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that this is not the kind of flu that we are used to in that the pattern of infections is unusual in that it has not, as yet, infected the seniors for instance but rather goes for children and young adults instead.
This makes it a very stranger influenza and something, in my opinion, as I have said before, that we should be very concerned about this flu not being a natural one, but rather one that was concocted in a bio-warfare lab somewhere and which has gotten out, either on purpose or by accident.
I would appear from laboratory tests that this virus is spread by direct contact more than through the air and in schools and such this would mean an ideal ground for it spreading.
When the vaccine is available it will be two shots, separated by three weeks, and it will not until after the second shot that a person is protected. This also make the virus appear rather strange, as with all other kinds of flu vaccines only one shot is required.
Come on folks! The odor of this is worse than that of Billigsgate Fishmarket in London on a very hot summer's day. In other words; something stinks here to high heaven.
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