February 9, 2010
Published: 23 Nov 09 15:15 CET
Updated: 23 Nov 09 17:42 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23430/20091123/
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Sweden's disease control authorities report that three women and eleven men have died from the swine flu since August. The fifteenth victim, a 3-year-old boy who died at the weekend, was not included in the report.
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I say this because I have seen newspapers cause scares before, claiming a new disease is 'sweeping the country', only for doctors later to say that the infection/death rate is the same as any other year!
Swine flu is not the conspiracy theory you think it is.. I guess you think the world is still flat too?
The number of people who consult their GP with flu-like symptoms varies from year to year, but is usually between 50 and 200 for every 100,000 people. This is in addition to the many people with flu who do not see their GP.
In the UK, about 600 people a year die from seasonal flu. This rises to around 13,000 during an epidemic.
So yes I think calebian22 is right when he says a "tempest in a teacup".
"sheeple" beautiful word!