300 DAYS OF SWINE FLU

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300 DAYS OF SWINE FLU

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Chart is a bit misleading. Swine Flu is merely 1 STRAIN of the Influenza virus, yet is compared to Cancer deaths despite there being a near complete A to Z list of different types and classifications of Cancer.. Cardiovascular disease is by far and away the highest killer on your list... but from what causes? Stroke? Heart Attack? Ruptured valve? The two major killers in Africa are TB and Malaria, often are related in death toll with AIDs. HIV doesn't actually kill you, it just compromises your to you, it just compromises your to something else ends up killing you.

That chart is not to be accepted without closer scrutiny. Still, H1N1 death rates aren't yet even over typical flu mortality rates IIRC. Current mortality rates aren't the concern... it's the potential. The virus may never mutate into a form which reaches a mortality rate even close to the regular seasonal flu strains. The concern is over how it can be deadly to even healthy young people. The idea is prevention, to try to keep a handle on it so it won't get that chance to possibly mutate into something more virulent.

While medicine can create an environmental selector to be overcome (by infectious bacteria such as MRSA), remember that evolution works with two prior co-requirements being Reproduction and Mutation. Contain the spread of the virus, limit it's population growth to controlled levels, and we can better estimate the course of it's evolution.