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Originally Posted by billybob123
Not true.
The issue was that it was infecting people who normally are the least likely to be infected - 5-24 year olds.
Data is in this graph provided by the CDC. Another stat for Germany is found here. Similar age spreads were seen for the 1918 pandemic Influenza virus; which is estimated to have killed 20-30 million worldwide.
Generally influenza infects and kills <5 yrs and >65 yrs.
So yeah, not quite "no more harmful". |
Yes, we know the swine flu was infecting young, healthy people, but they were not dying in mass numbers from it. To them, H1N1 was "no more harmful" than a regular seasonal flu. To compare swine flu to the spanish flu is a little off base....
Anyways I'm done here, but I will not take any vaccines unless a real killer pandemic with higher death rates (like spanish flu) hits the streets....