Pandemic or Media Orgasm?

[rayboyusmc]

Remember the bird flu that didn't kill all the millions it was supposed to?

It seems like this is another one of those stories that the 24 hour cable stations need to exist.

Deaths information for Flu: An estimated 100,000 hospitalizations and about 20,000 deaths occur each year from the flu or its complications. (Source: excerpt from Focus On The Flu: NIAID) ... average of 20,000 to 40,000 deaths per year. (Source: excerpt from Microbes in Sickness and in Health - Publications, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: NIAID) ... in the United States more than 100,000 people are hospitalized and more than 20,000 people die from the flu and its complications every year. (Source: excerpt from The Flu, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID) ... In an average year, flu leads to about 20,000 deaths nationwide and many more hospitalizations. (Source: excerpt from What to Do About the Flu - Age Page - Health Information: NIA)

 

[DavidS]

Come on, Gunny. We had an Election 2008 sub-forum back in the day. Now we need a swine flu pandemic sub-forum.

 

[DiveCon]

i'd agree with the "media orgasm"

 

[KittenKoder]

Purtty much ... without crap like this they'd have too little to report on.

 

[dilloduck]

Actually people like hearing about it----if it didn't sell the media would move on.