Saturday, October 24, 2009
We now have an H1N1 health emergency.
Declared by the President, it allows the Sec of Health and Human Services to bypass some federal rules to react more quickly to the flu problem.
The Center For Disease Control has a website for those who don't get their news from Fux.
Swine flu is more widespread now than it's ever been. Health authorities say almost 100 children have died from the flu, known as H1N1, and 46 states now have widespread flu activity.What makes this a problem is the fact that the elements that cause an immune response in us have not been seen for fifty years and the younger segments of society have no learned response to it. It has been deadly to otherwise young and healthy people.
Worldwide, more than 5,000 people have reportedly died from swine flu since it emerged this year and developed into a global epidemic, the World Health Organization said Friday. Since most countries have stopped counting individual swine flu cases, the figure is considered an underestimate.
The Center For Disease Control has a website for those who don't get their news from Fux.
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