09-14-2009, 01:59 AM
H1N1 is a very dangerous virus.
It's been noted as being very unstable, and no one has a natural immunity to it, so it's highly infectious. For the time being, most cases have been rather mild, however the Spanish flu showed up with a mild wave of infection before a second wave initiated later on during the flu season and killed about 50,000,000~100,000,000.
To say that the H1N1 virus is being blown out of proportion is, to say the least, ignorant. It's like those people who advocate that vaccines don't work, or aren't necessary because the diseases are all but gone now.
Or those that say SARS was overblown, when in reality SARS didn't become a pandemic because of the aggressive response that it was greeted with.
It's been noted as being very unstable, and no one has a natural immunity to it, so it's highly infectious. For the time being, most cases have been rather mild, however the Spanish flu showed up with a mild wave of infection before a second wave initiated later on during the flu season and killed about 50,000,000~100,000,000.
To say that the H1N1 virus is being blown out of proportion is, to say the least, ignorant. It's like those people who advocate that vaccines don't work, or aren't necessary because the diseases are all but gone now.
Or those that say SARS was overblown, when in reality SARS didn't become a pandemic because of the aggressive response that it was greeted with.