Friday, June 26, 2009

ARE SWINE FLU DEATHS UNDERCOUNTED ?

My friend's daughter was a young school teacher in Los Angeles and she died last week. She told her mother she wasn't feeling well so her mom took her to the hospital. She went in to see the doctor and they were giving her some breathing treatments.

Her mother was in the waiting room when the doctor came out and told her that her daughter was dead. The mother didn't know why her daughter was dead. She was working everyday and she walked into the hospital on her own and didn't show any symptoms or anything.

I asked the mother whether her daughter had any students going back and forth across the border and she didn't know. The health department doesn't usually let the public know if there is an epidemic unless it gets out of control. They were reluctant to give a level 6 alarm, but the World Health Organization did announce a pandemic.

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