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LA Times: Scientists see this flu strain as relatively mild
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[quote:Boomer:MV83ODQxNjdfMTIwMzc0NjNfQkQ0NEZFNTE=] Hilarious though. This has to be the biggest hoax ever perpetrated against this board - EAT must be jealous. To think, all these people talking about stocking up and keeping their children home from school, never realizing that they're the biggest sheep of all - falling the hardest for the government fear mongering. =p But doom is our religion, and some of us are more evangelical than others. [/quote]
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Genetic data indicate this outbreak won't be as deadly as that of 1918, or even the average winter.
As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza -- at least in its current form -- isn't shaping up to be as fatal as the strains that caused some previous pandemics.
In fact, the current outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which emerged in San Diego and southern Mexico late last month, may not even do as much damage as the run-of-the-mill flu outbreaks that occur each winter without much fanfare. ...
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