reply to post by Lemon.Fresh
Here is a citation for you:
You may not be able to find out definitively what flu virus you have. Currently available rapid influenza diagnostic tests cannot distinguish
between 2009 H1N1 and seasonal influenza A viruses. Most people with flu symptoms this season will not require testing for 2009 H1N1 because the test
results usually do not change how you are treated. As of September 2009, more than 99% of circulating influenza viruses in the United States are 2009
H1N1. Therefore, at this time, if your health care provider determines that you have the flu, you most likely have 2009 H1N1.
www.cdc.gov...
The CDC made this move immediately after Obama declared the state of emergency in the US about Swine Flu. I believe, in fact, the CDC said this in a
press release the exact aame day. If not, it was the day after.
They stopped testing right away because the only labs that can efficiently test are CDC labs, and they were flooded with tests from non-critically ill
patients. Testing was turned to hospitalized patients, pregnant women, and patients at high risk due to other illnesses.
I can tell you, also, that I have seen several people die due to swine flu related pneumonia. I know of several others that are still on ventillators
due to it. They are not citing swine flu as the cause of death as far as I know, it is pneumonia. I do not feel this is due to conspiracy, though, but
simply to the death certificate requiring an exact cause of death. IE: Death due to respiratory arrest secondary to pneumonia.
I would blame the lack of reporting more back to the lack of investigating the cause of the pneumonia. If the family doesn't ask for the autopsy,
chances are one won't be done. Any death that occurs in someone under the treatment of a physician after a certain time has passed, and not a
traumatic death, does not require investigation past the stated cause, as I outlined above with death certificates.
The problem with Swine Flu is that it attacks healthy immune systems, and causes a reaction called a cytokine storm. Some of these deaths are caused
from pulmonary edema, but can also be from fluid overload.
www.cytokinestorm.com...
The whole reason IMO this reeks of conspiracy is due exactly to the cytokine storm result. This is the part I think they wanted built into the virus,
and had counted on being worse than it is.
