Ny Daily News Says: "Swine Flu Crisis Was Hogwash"

So, I was reading the Daily News earlier and came across this story about the Swine Flu. Apparently, its no different than "a garden variety influenza".

To quote the article:

"Relax. It's time to wash your hands of the swine-flu fears. The nation's top public health official said yesterday there are positive signs that the swine flu is no more severe than garden-variety influenza.

'We're seeing encouraging signs that this virus, so far, is not looking more severe than a strain we're seeing during seasonal flu," Richard Besser acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on "Fox News Sunday."

Besser said swine flu is producing far milder symptoms than the 1918 outbreak of Spanish Flu, which killed up to 50 million people.

His comments came as Mexico's health secretary Jose' Angel Cordova, said that the recent outbreak has peaked in his country and is declining. The swine flu virus (which has killed 22 people in Mexico-not the 150 initially reported-and sickened at least 568), reached a peak between April 22 and April 28.

'In New York State, there are 96 confirmed and probable cases', said the state's health commissioner, Dr. Richard Daines.

Overseas, however, fears are still running rampant:

The WHO (World Health Organization) warned that history shows the virus (swine flu) has the potential to come back in the fall. 'I would like to remind people that in 1918, the Spanish Flu showed a surge in the spring and then disappeared in the summer months-only to return in the autumn of 1918 with a vengeance", said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl.

The CDC reported 245 cases in 35 US states with one death, a 22-month-old child who had traveled from Mexico. The federal health agency says 36,000 people die of the regular flu every year."

SO- with that said, swine flu is merely a diff type of flu. No higher risk than regular influenza's, so everybody, relax on the masks.
How long have people been letting us know that AIDS was running rampant, but people still arent wearing condoms? (yea, I got the text message, too)