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November 21, 2009
Swedish politician dies of swine flu
Published: 3 Nov 09 11:16 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23040/20091103/
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Liberal Party politician Jan-Erik Brohede has died of a swine flu-related illness at the age of 48, newspaper Nerikes Allehanda reports.
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"He had several of the risk factors that could cause a serious bout of influenza," Örebro county medical advisor Mats Björeman told the newspaper.
Björeman added that the politician had not been in contact with health authorities and was not vaccinated against the virus.
Örebro county health board is urging everybody in a risk group to quickly get vaccinated against the swine flu, which it says has spread rapidly both in the county and nationwide over the last week. People at greatest risk of becoming seriously ill include pregnant women, children under the age of two, diabetics, and patients with heart and lung diseases.
Brohede's death brings the number of confirmed swine-flu related deaths in Sweden to three. The two previous casualties also belonged to groups considered most at risk.
A three-year-old boy also died at the weekend after contracting the A/H1N1 virus, but it is not yet known whether it contributed directly to his death.
According to official statistics, there were 2,126 recorded cases of swine flu in Sweden by the beginning of this week.
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Honestly ,....do you believe that , this "swine" flu is so dangerous ? Do you know how many kinds of flu exist around the earth ?How many people die every day from flu ..... "swine" , "chicken" , " elephant " .....and fullish like this.
Why first was called "swine" and when people understood that actually doesn't have anything commonly with our favourite food ,they called AH1N1 ....
Yeee, this sounds more scary ,... some unknow number can mean everything and that is the key ....
What about this "amazing" vaccine , first they told us , that will take to much time to create it , next they told us that is ready somehow very fast but the quantities are not enough and the prise started growing more and more ....After that, when almost all countries had payed for this spring of life , they unexpectedly found external efects and everything have to start at the beginning .
Just live right , eat right , be active , and you will be healthy ....
tells all about Swine Flu
Newspapers decide this is not alarmist enough.
HE DID NOT DIE OF SWINE FLU.
Please get your act together. This news website is rapidly becoming a bad joke and a haven for poor journalism.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18014-swine-flu-myth-the-vaccine-isnt-safe--it-has-been-rushed-through-tests-and-the-last-time-there-was-a-swine-flu-scare-the-vaccine-hurt-people-why-take-the-risk-to-prevent-mild-flu.html
Protect yourself and your loved ones. Get vaccinated.
Everything is a big lie . They rely on commonly panic and people's scare , that is pure psychology , it's not science .
It seems that you have misunderstood the issue:
The swine flu virus did not exist in nature. It was constructed by the scientists and the swine flu vaccin was developped (alas without satisfactory safety) and was patented. Six months later, somehow, it escaped the lab and then started existing in nature and caused its epidemi.
Now, both the swine flu and its vaccine are killing people.
Switzerland has forbidden vaccinating those over 65. Israel totally stopped vaccinating people after 4 died of the vaccine as newspapers wrote.
Those who are in the risk group should be vaccinated say the authorities in Sweden. What if they die of the vaccination, as people (in the risk group or not) died of it?
It is also true that unvaccinated people in the risk group have died of swine flu. But, would they be saved if vaccinated or die anyway of the illness or of the vaccine?