Horrible Hiney(H1n1) - Mortality in perspective

I just spent a week in Calgary where it was much cooler than my body is accustom to but the H1N1 panic was heated up to a fever pitch which was hard to explain in my mind.


My son emailed me a link to Michael Paukner's flickr site that has a chart that helps put the magnitude of the threat in perspective.

Go to this link to see it with better detail.

Note the H1N1 entry in red near the middle of the chart. Kind of dwarfs other health risks such as cardiovascular disease and cancer - right? I wonder where deaths due to water born diseases would lie on the chart. That's one we could actually do something significant on and reduce mortality especially among the young and most vulnerable. I'm convinced that H1N1 is a scare of the affluent.

Swine Flu Vaccine, Deja Vu All Over Again by Jeffrey Dach MD

Jeffrey Dach MD has a documentary on swine flu vaccine that is very interesting and a worthwhile read. I heartily recommend it to all. Read it here

Swine Flu (H1N1) virus

Gary Moller has written a good article on reducing the impact of the now declared pandemic flu virus on your health. See it at his web site here I found it quite good as it dispells some of the mystery of something so awful as to be called 'pandemic', 'Swine flu', or '(H1N1) virus'. Not only that but it provides some practical things you can do. All in all that makes for a dynamic duo!