Hospitalizations, intensive-care admissions and deaths due to the H1N1 virus are three times higher this week over the previous week as a second wave of the pandemic disease moves across the country, federal health officials say.

The latest death was a two-month-old baby boy in London, Ont., who died Monday from symptoms of the H1N1 virus.

Canada's chief public health officer, David Butler-Jones, said today that while there will be more illness and deaths in the coming weeks, getting vaccinated will help slow the spread of the virus.

“So those who are suggesting we're over the worst of it, ... until people are either immunized or become ill this could go on and will go on for several months yet,” Dr. Butler-Jones told reporters in a conference call. “There's still an opportunity to get ahead of a lot of preventable infection both with the measures that we're talked about as well as appropriate treatment as well as getting the vaccine when it's time to do so.”

http://www.theglobeandmai...officials/article1352508/

My real concern is not the swine flu. Consider the Chinese Calendar: Three years ago, Year of the Cow... we had Mad Cow Disease. Two years ago, Year of the Bird... we had Avian Flu. This year, Year of the Pig... Swine Flu.



Next year is the Year of the Cock... so, you know.

cock flu. you get it and your cock falls off

if you play hockey maybe you can get one right now

depends, what other sports?

hahah Bassfreak

if it was THAT dangerous so many nurses and doctors would be sick... don't they get shots every year?

Doctors and nurses are immune to the shot, they don't get sick the way regular people like you might.

And the worst isn't over, for those in the medical field, it's just bad all the time.