Is the U.S. Swine Flu Epidemic Over?

(AP)  Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won't go so far as to say that, but on Friday they reported for the fourth week in a row that no states had widespread flu activity.

U.S. cases have been declining since October. An official with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says swine flu cases are still occurring and are likely to continue a while longer at some level.

But another expert said a future large wave of cases now seems very unlikely. The expert, Vanderbilt University's Dr. William Schaffner, said the epidemic has "one foot in the grave."

An estimated 70 million Americans have been vaccinated against swine flu through a government vaccination campaign that started in October. Meanwhile, an estimated 55 million or more got sick from swine flu and recovered, meaning they developed some level of natural immunity from the experience.

Combined, that means that 40 percent or more of the public has immunity to the virus. Such numbers will make it difficult for swine flu in its current form to reappear in a new wave, Schaffner noted.

[monumentalfigure]

Well, I took the swine flu shot, but not in the nose but instead in the shoulder muscle. For children who have smaller muscularity, the correct place might be gluteus maximus.

Can't think of anyone so stupid to inject children in the nose area - even if the vaccine does get into blood circulation from there too in a few days. Maybe that was only a stupid photo, which really doesn't act as a good advertising for medical folks...

You know, have to lecture a bit: there is something called scientific development. And if you study a short time what for example vaccines are, you might realize they are a very clever finding. Viruses attack the organism, the oganism reacts by getting sick but also with creating immunity (antibodies for a virus) which prevents the organism getting sick of the same virus again for some period of time - so you can use the weakened or even dead virus, to not getting sick but to get the needed antibody, causing the immunity.

By having a swine flu shot I help the community to make living and dangerous swine flu viruses harder to spread, if these enter my system, they are eliminated with my already developed antibodies. So I do not spread the swine flu, but I would it I had not taken the shot.

It is some kind of war against viruses, if nothing is done, maybe hundreds of thousands will die. If vaccines are used correct, only a few thousand people or less might die of some very special complication. So there are clear benefits with vaccines.

If you do not believe - you might want to study the history of antibiotics. In the old days when there were none, you might die of a scratch in the skin. There are plenty of other examples too...

[baileyccc]

Big Pharma behind the scenes tried to cause panic having the major news media(Big Pharma is the news media biggest client)tell of the dangers and telling everyone to get this deadly flu shot. Congress even gave Big Pharma immunity against lawsuits because Big Pharma is in congress pocket. But the internet help the people see the light. Vaccines are the "snake oil" of western medicine with a dismal past record.

The age of the internet is a thorn in Big Pharma side, I see dark days ahead for these corrupt companies that control the FDA. Their hey day is over. Posted by Baileyccc

[patrons99]

Well-stated viewpoint Baileyccc. We will all be in serious trouble when someone pulls the plug on the internet. Some articles and links which support your view are the following:

An article titled _Secret British MMR Vaccine Files Forced Open By Legal Action_, posted on January 13, 2009 by childhealthsafety, states, inter alia,

_The CEO of the owners of Richard Horton_s _The Lancet_, Crispin Davis, was appointed to the MMR litigation Defendants_ parent company GlaxoSmithKline_s board of directors in July 2003._

http://www.whale.to/vaccine/mmr666.html
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/secret-british-mmr-vaccine-files-forced-open-by-legal-action/#US_Developments

A letter titled _Les Incompetants: Open Letter to the AAP_ by K. Paul Stoller, M.D. on 02/26/2008, can be found at this link:
http://www.whale.to/a/stoller.html

K Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM, on January 13th, 2009 at 3:42 pm Said:

The truth that vaccine policy is not about science or safety but about money and politics is finally seeing the light of day.

We have a choice to make about not only holding responsible parties accountable for destroying the lives of untold children around the world, but whether we want to destroy the human genome by the continued injection of dirty vaccine that punches holes in our immune systems.

The history of vaccine in littered with horrible mistakes and skulduggery ? from the SV40 virus given to millions in the polio vaccine to the continued use of mercury and other heavy metals. The fact is even the best MMR vaccine is contaminated with avian retro virus and reverse transcriptase. This is criminal!

Jennifer Craig, Ph.D, on January 16th, 2009 at 8:19 am Said:

Having read the history of all vaccines, this does not surprise me at all. The first smallpox vaccine was never shown to decrease smallpox incidence or deaths and hundreds of people were injured by the vaccine. Yet this nonsense has gone on now for over 150 years. When are people going to realise that injecting a toxic brew straight into a child?s bloodstream is voodoo medicine. The wonder is that so many children survive.

[erasmus111]

Normally your typical flu bug does better in the winter months. That isn't so with the Swine flu. It did better in the summer. So we could see an increase again in the spring. Not like before, though, because many have either had it already, or they have had the vaccine.

[cdegolier]

There was epidemic, it killed less people than the average flu does per year.

[mljohns00]

Next question:

Did global warming cause the H1N1 flu?

[IndepTex20]

What epidemic? Did I miss something?

[poochie44]

I'm with you. All that hype and fear for nothing.