Swine+Flu+A.H

What is **swine flu**? Swine influenza is a repiratory disease in pigs, which causes high levels of illness but low deaths of pigs. - The disease can't be cought by eating pork, because by the time it is eaten, all the bacteria that causes the virus is killed off. - Virus is airborne Symptoms: - fever (usually high) - headache - extreme tiredness - dry cough - sore throught - runny or stuffy nose - muscle aches - Stomach symptoms such as nausea, vomitting, and diarrhea can occur, but are more commen in children compared to adults.

[] The U.S. officials say there are about 20 cases of swine influenza in the country. It is hard to predict whether the disease will grow to an extreme, because there are only a two places, in Atlanta and Canada that have had this case. So gathering research will be rough. “We may just be looking at the tip of the iceberg, which would give you a skewed initial estimate of the case fatality rate,” he said, meaning that there might have been tens of thousands of mild infections around the 1,300 cases of serious disease and 80 or more deaths. If that is true, as the flu spreads, it would not be surprising if most cases were mild.
 * //New York Times//**
 * U.S. declares Public Health Emergency over Swine Flu**


 * Swine Flu in Fort Dix**

About as many as 230 people at Fort Dix were infected by the swine influenza. Theswine flu is what cause the 1918-19 influenza pandemic. In March of 1976, President Gerald FOrd announced that man, woman and child be vaccinated so that they would be protected if the disease every returned. But only 45 million were made. It was stopped in December when many of the peole who had gotten the vaccine had been diagnosed with Guillian Barre syndrome, which caused neurological disease: including mucsle weakness, paralysis, and other times death.

Speech to the public:

We all know about the swine flu, and the dangers it has brought to us. I will tell you now that there are vaccines avalible to you for free. But before you make your decision on whether or not to get it, I wish for you hear me out. Swine influenzais a repiratory disease in pigs. It is airborne, so eating pork will not give you it. There has been a case before where many people were effected with swine flu, it was at Fort Dix. As many as 230 peope were infected with it. Here, there has been a total of 20 people infected with the swine flu, 8 being in New York. Again these vaccinations are avalible to all for free. The cost for a vaccination should not come before people lives, which is why there is no fee. Whether you think the swine flu will spread worldwide or not, I can not tell you what to believe; but I do believe that no matter what, your decision is what matters most, please make the best of it.