Why are/were people scaried of the swine flu if it's just like the regular flu without a cure?
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I think it's because people didn't know what exactly it was. Everyone thought it was a lot more serious than it really was.
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Technically it was not like the regular flu. Yes it may have had the symptoms and such as the flu but it was not like the regular flu.
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Because you can die from it so much quicker than the plain flu. People with breathing problems will probably die if they get it.
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I would be scared of catching something without a cure, but I'm pretty sure swine flu is treatable.
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I have no idea; after all, the regular flu is actually worse to get than the swine flu.
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because the press made it sound a lot worse than it is and the governments paniced.
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I don't think any flu has an actual cure. But I tink that there were several reasons that this one caused more panic/concern. First of all most flu epidemics begin in China or elsewhere in Asia and work their way westward. This gives researchers a chance to develop vaccines by the time the flu season hits in the west. This virus arose (or appears to have) in North America, outside of the standard flu season. It also appeared to be reaching epidemic numbers very rapidly. Flu viruses are also masters at mutating and evolving, so researchers didn't know if it was going to take off, causing a pandemic and becoming more virulent in the process. The WHO was reacting on the side of caution. But between the blown up media stories and peoples' being prone to hysteria (many times based on ignorance of the facts/issues involved) people became much more weirded out over this than usual. Even what you call "regular" flu has the capacity to mutate into a virulent pandemic-causing monster.
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It is because this swine flu outbreak is caused by a new strain of swine flu which can spread more easily to human to human. Because its a new strain we do not have any hereditory immunity to the disease because no antibodies against it were passed down from our ancestors into our blood while in the mothers womb. Luckily the mortality rate does not appear to be too high but we were not to know this when we first heard of the outbreak so it did put many people in panic while we unsucessfully tried to contain its spread. ''Preliminary findings by the WHO Rapid Pandemic Assessment Collaboration estimate the case-fatality rate (CFR) in a range from 0.3% to 1.4%, with 0.4% the most likely value.'' (Source)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak A pandemic is likely to occur in the when its the flu season in the winter of this year. On average about 25% of people will probably catch swine flu if there is a pandemic with most of the deaths from it being the infirm.
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Because of media hype, and people allowing themselves to be whipped into a fervor. The influenza virus evolves every year; each year there are more and different strains of it. People die of the flu. It happens. Attaching a name to it doesn't make it any more scary, nor any different from what's been going on with influenza for the past several decades.
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