".... Over the past few days, there has been an increase statewide in people going to their doctors with flulike symptoms, Smith said. The levels are still only half as high as during the H1N1 outbreak in the spring and a third as high as the seasonal flu’s peak last winter.
Patients are not routinely tested for the strains of flu they may be infected with, but signs point to swine flu. “This is very early for seasonal flu,’’ Dr. Lauren Smith, medical director of the state Department of Public Health said. “We can safely assume that flu activity this early, in October, is probably due to H1N1.’’
In Boston, which was hit hard by swine flu in the spring, absenteeism in the public schools is not high, according to Dr. Anita Barry, director of the infectious disease bureau of the Boston Public Health Commission. “Attendance is pretty normal,’’ she said. “We also monitor visits to school nurses. We see no big spike in influenza-like illnesses.’’
And NOW for the FRONT-PAGE LEAD HEADLINE:"Increase in flu is called dramatic; H1N1 hitting hard, Mass. officials say" by Elizabeth Cooney, Globe Correspondent | October 24, 2009
Yup, a BIG, FAT, DISTORTED, AGENDA-PUSHING, FRONT-PAGE, ABOVE-the-FOLD TURD!!!
Massachusetts has seen a jump in flu activity this week that has led one Central Massachusetts high school to close and that appears to signify the arrival of the second wave of swine flu.
For the first time this fall, public health authorities described the state’s influenza outbreak yesterday as widespread, the highest category on the scale of disease spread.
And they are LYING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Related: Swine Flu Saviors
CAN'T UNDERSTAND us, huh, you LYING SACK of S***?!!!!!!!!!
In a weekly surveillance report, officials said they had seen a “dramatic increase in influenza-like illnesses over the past few weeks’’ compared with early fall levels in previous years. “We had always been predicting this,’’ Smith said yesterday. “We knew the H1N1 [swine flu] virus was going to be increasing. We didn’t know when, but now we do. It’s here.’’
Translation: THEY RELEASED the NEW MAN-MADE MUTATION in MASSACHUSETTS!!!
NEXT STOP, MARTIAL LAW!!
Related: Swine Flu Slaughter Just a Scare
Oh, the MSM LIED AGAIN, did they?
***************
Good. THEY can HAVE MINE!! And I'M REALLY SICK of the LYING DOCTORS and their AGENDA-PUSHING EVIL, 'kay?!!!!!!!
Hunt, whose son attends Grafton High School, said some parents may be keeping healthy children home to keep them from catching the flu....
Oh, so EVEN the ATTENDANCE NUMBERS are INFLATED and SKEWED!!!!!!
Hospitals also are being cautious. Some are limiting who can visit their patients, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Children 13 or younger and adults with flu symptoms will not be allowed to visit patients at UMass Memorial Medical Center’s three Worcester campuses. Southcoast Hospitals Group is keeping anyone under the age of 18 from visiting patients in the pediatric and maternity wards at its hospitals in New Bedford, Fall River, and Wareham.
Also see: Pork Products Infected With Swine Flu
So they MAY TELL YOU a RELATIVE DIED after they PULLED THE PLUG and you will NEVER KNOW IT, America!! What a BETTER WAY to get rid of those USELESS EATERS and DEFIANT DISSIDENTS, huh?
Massachusetts is one of 46 states now considered to have widespread flu activity, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since Sept. 1, more than half the people hospitalized with swine flu and almost a quarter of those who died have been under 25 years old, Dr. Anne Schuchat of CDC said earlier this week, based on data gathered from 27 states reporting lab-confirmed cases. Almost two-thirds of deaths are among people from 25 to 64 years old; seasonal flu is most lethal to people over 65.
That's odd because I was told the "CDC doesn’t have an exact count of swine flu deaths."
“This remains largely a young person’s disease, but we are seeing it increasingly affect young adults, as well as children,’’ the CDC director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, said yesterday in a conference call with reporters. Frieden said recent swine flu cases appear to be about as severe as they were in the spring, calling it comparable to seasonal influenza.
“We expect that influenza will occur in waves,’’ Frieden said. “We can’t predict how high, how far, or how long the wave will go or when the next will come. We are now in the second wave of pandemic influenza.’’
--more--"Update: Breaking News: Obama Invokes Martial Law Over Swine Flu
U.S. Surreptitiously Sets Up Swine Flu Vaccination Slaughter
They are going to have to kill me to get at this property or get a needle in me.
