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Swine flu fear is back! You missed it didn’t you? The CDC released a report this week saying that N1H1 could claim almost 100,000 American lives, many of which will be children, this upcoming flu season. With kids going back to the germ filled petri-dish that is school, we should all prepare for the potential illness that they could bring home. The Today Show put together a back to school swine flu survival checklist all of which are easy and will hopefully cut down on spread of those icky swine flu germs. Check out the list here: Continue reading »
School is about to start. Kids will be not only be bringing home school yard gossip and homework but they’ll be bringing home germs, and lots of them. The featured virus this year – the swine flu. Recent polls are reflecting that Americans in general aren’t too concerned about the N1H1 virus and have become complacent, but the new reports predicting that almost 100,000 people will die this season will reinstall some good old fashioned fear.
The CDC is saying that up to 40% of the US population could develop the swine flu, that two million Americans could be hospitalized with about 300,000 landing in intensive care and that about 90,000 – mostly young adults and children – could die from swine flu. Yeah, the fear is back. Continue reading »
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