Swine Flu Pandemic officially over

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
06/02/2010 08:38

The Swine flu hotline in the UK is now closed as the pandemic is officially over, 411 deaths were recorded in the UK, with over 100 still in hospital receiving treatment.



Now in my opinion a lot of people would have died from influenza anyway as happens every winter with the old and infirm, and that is without any fancy name being given to it (swine flu). So did most of the world panic??



Chris

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
06/02/2010 09:51

The pharmaceutical companies and ancillaries made a killing no doubt!



It's an ill wind.....

MarkVPiazza


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 530

Message Posted:
06/02/2010 12:27

It was usefull to take our minds off our respective governments cock-up of our economies, so I guess it was helpfull to some.



Let's hope we can now dispense with the other nonsense story, "man made global warming"

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
06/02/2010 12:40

I remember reading that UK deaths from "winter" flu is on average 4000 people a year.

gillken


Joined: 25/05/2008
Posts: 521

Message Posted:
06/02/2010 13:19

And how many of these deaths really were swine flu? Wasn't it a foregone conclusion if you had flue the doctors without any tests labelled it Swine Flu to be on the safe side.

We had a very sad local death.

A 16 year old girl died from complications arising from tonsillitis after being misdiagnosed with swine flu over the phone by a GP, her father has claimed.