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CDC Tells Lies Over Swine Flu Stats

CDC, Atlanta Campus

I currently help staff an urgent care facility that sees nearly 100
patients per day. We have seen very large numbers of people with
complaints that could be due to influenza, yet have documented only
about five to ten per week and that only began about the first of
October. We have hospitalized no patients and our parent hospital that
serves a population of about 150,000 has reported one death due to
H1N1 and that was in a child with severe underlying immunological
disease. The new CDC estimates seemed so far off from what many of us
front-line docs are actually seeing that I had to investigate this
further. The CDC has adopted, for the first time in epidemiological
methodology, a technique that extrapolates numbers from very limited
and dubious samplings. I am very skeptical of the latest estimates
from the CDC that has been corrupted by politics and now serves as a
propaganda arm of the entrenched bureaucracy. Yet another example of
how the government can screw-up most anything it touches.

Dr Theo, Dakota Voice

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=3040&end=3060&view=yes&id=4022#newspost

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* A New Strain Of Swine Flu Or Change In Surveillance?
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The Australian Experience - We Do Not Need A Pandemic Response To
Swine Flu

Dr Meryl Nass, MD

From Dr. Heath A. Kelly, head of the epidemiology unit at Victoria's
Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory: The Victorian, Australia
experience suggests that the circulation of pandemic (H1N1) 2009
influenza in the community was at most like influenza circulation in a
season of moderate seasonal activity. We know most infections have
been mild. Deaths from swine flu have not been as numerous as the
modelled deaths from seasonal influenza. We may not have needed a
pandemic response to a disease that, although it has a different
footprint, has been predominantly of seasonal intensity.

Dr Meryl Nass, MD

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=3040&end=3060&view=yes&id=4017#newspost



Asia - Distrust Over Tamiflu's Adverse Effects Rising

In Japan, a series of teen suicides in 2007 found that they took
Tamiflu. Since the sale of the anti-viral drug was permitted in 2001,
Japan had been the world’s largest consumer of Tamiflu from 2001 to
2007 with up 70 percent of global consumption. With the number of
teenagers who jumped to their deaths from a building or in front of
trucks increasing, fear over the adverse effects of the drug has
risen. The Japanese Health Ministry conducted another survey in June
of 10,000 children under age 18 and banned medical institutions from
prescribing Tamiflu for those under 18. In the wake of the suicides,
distrust in Tamiflu among the Japanese is rising.

The Dong-A Ilbo

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