At last a couple of respectable news reporting organizations are beginning to publish info on the H1N1 outbreak. Take a look at these two links for more information.
The first is from Bloomberg, a prominent financial reporting organization
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYh5mi5NAZ94&refer=home
The second if from the Los Angeles "Times"
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-swine-reality30-2009apr30,0,3606923.story
There are now reports that this particular H1N1 strain may be even less threatening than the variant that many of us were vaccinated against leading into flu season last October. Trying to find a positive side to this, the hyperbole about influenza seems to have completely blown all concerns about GM facing the possibility of going bankrupt, the likelihood that Chrysler will file for bankruptcy as early as today, April 30, the fact that Pakistan is fighting to avoid being taken over by Taliban and al Qaeda, and that we are still fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk, a nuclear-armed nation teeters on the verge of falling into the hands of extremists, and our news organizations are fixated upon something that is still not even an epidemic, let alone a pandemic.
And again, we would never trivialize the concern about H1N1 spreading, and have implemented hygiene standards in our office to mitigate the possibility of infection. We have a far bigger problem right now with one of our guard schnauzer's flatulence. If you stop by our office and we're all wearing masks, it has nothing to do with H1N1.
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