Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Why does swine flu get more press than plain flu?

Dunno. The swine type sure does drive the newsies into a headline orgy. How does it differ from plain old influenza? Is it more contagious, more virulent, or what? Or does it just give a DNA match with cases from Mexico, or swine, or something. Do I care if complex lab procedures show a match with something else?
Unless I hear something that matters, I think it's just another flu varient, the likes of which we hav been seeing for centuries. Anyone remember the Asian flu of 1957? It went thru boarding school like a house afire, every kid in my school came down with it. They all recovered too.

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