H1N1 virus facts

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So Fox News just posted a graphic with stats from the World Health Org. I believe. Anyway, it had a few numbers about the Swine Flu.

22 million infected
3900 confirmed deaths

Now using 8th grade level math, that appears to be a .017% mortality rate.

Is that any different (or actually better) than mortality rates for your regular, garden variety seasonal flu?
 
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On average 41,400 people died each year in the United States between 1979 and 2001 from influenza.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Now using 8th grade level math, that appears to be a .017% mortality rate.

Is that any different (or actually better) than mortality rates for your regular, garden variety seasonal flu?
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From what I've read, the mortality rates are turning out to be about the same. So far, I think kids with H1N1 are faring better than originally feared.
 
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It's an epidemic!

It's worse than the plague!

Hamthrax will doom us all!
 
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I actually got h1n1 and the symptoms aren't as bad as I thought they would be, just got a fever up to a 103 at one point and chills. I don't know why this is being so hyped over the regular flu
 
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I don't feel like its nearly as hyped up as it was in the beginning. Keep in mind when it first appeared, there were a lot of deaths associated with it. Of course a lot of those were in mexico where I'm assuming they did not have as great of medical facilities as we have access to. It has since become quite manageable and mortality rates will continue to decline. I'd say by, now just about everyone knows someone who has been affected and only had to sit a few days out.
 
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DrRosenRosen said:
On average 41,400 people died each year in the United States between 1979 and 2001 from influenza.
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Well, since this epidemic has been out for just under a year or so, I would say that we are doing pretty good. The info given was for worldwide. If 3,900 have died worldwide, I'm sure we are still way off the 41,000 death annual pace nationally. IMO, this has been overblown big time.
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Well, since this epidemic has been out for just under a year or so, I would say that we are doing pretty good. The info given was for worldwide. If 3,900 have died worldwide, I'm sure we are still way off the 41,000 death annual pace nationally. IMO, this has been overblown big time.
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No, those figures are just in the U.S. 22 million infected, 3900 dead, in the U.S.
 
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lawgator1 said:
No, those figures are just in the U.S. 22 million infected, 3900 dead, in the U.S.
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The W.H.O. provided the info I posted, so I thought it was worldwide numbers.

Either way, even if it was just for the US, the mortality rate is still .017%. :unsure:

Clearly, no need for a panic or a nationwide scare.
 
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I don't know that mortality rate alone should be enough to dismiss H1N1 as just another virus. It's having a measurable economic impact if for no other reason than lost productivity.
 
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