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Platapus · 04-30-09, 05:42 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29...flu/index.html

Good advice from the Acting Director of the CDC

"However, he [acting director of the CDC] stressed that people should maintain their perspective on the swine flu outbreak.

"Seasonal flu each year causes tens of thousands of deaths in this country -- on average, about 36,000 deaths," Besser said. "And so this flu virus in the United States, as we're looking at it, is not acting very differently from what we saw during the flu season."

04-30-09, 05:42 PM	#11
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,401 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29...flu/index.html Good advice from the Acting Director of the CDC "However, he [acting director of the CDC] stressed that people should maintain their perspective on the swine flu outbreak. "Seasonal flu each year causes tens of thousands of deaths in this country -- on average, about 36,000 deaths," Besser said. "And so this flu virus in the United States, as we're looking at it, is not acting very differently from what we saw during the flu season." __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.