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98,000 Americans Have Been Hospitalized Because of Swine Flu
November 12, 2009 2:04 PM
Over the past couple of days we have been getting a clearer sense of the impact of swine flu here in America. Today new numbers. 22 million Americans have gotten ill from swine flu (since last spring). 98,000 have been hospitalized. And 3,900 lives have been lost. As for children, 36,000 have been hospitalized and 540 have died.
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it may be that ther flu is a result of the people having bad health before the germ got them....i personaly take 4000 iu of vit d a day and have been around lots of people with flu and have not gotten it---flu is a defficiency disease and malnutrition exists in america with all the junk foods and low amounts of vitamins added to foods
Posted by: steve | Nov 12, 2009 5:10:42 PM
"it may be that ther flu is a result of the people having bad health before the germ got them....i personaly take 4000 iu of vit d a day and have been around lots of people with flu and have not gotten it---flu is a defficiency disease and malnutrition exists in america with all the junk foods and low amounts of vitamins added to foods"
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I take NO extra vitamins a day, eat fairly healthy but nothing special and have diabetes.
I also have been around several people with the flu......but haven't caught it.
It isn't as simple as taking your vitamins. Many healthy, health-conscious people are catching H1N1. Many of them have been very sick.
Posted by: malcat | Nov 12, 2009 9:33:41 PM
Ok Steve. I am not going to give my daughters 4,000 iu of vitamin D daily. They are not adults. And children immune systems are not fully developed like yours. I am glad that your healthy but some of us get the diabetes, heart problems and asma genetically. It is not all what we eat. Us people with these kinds of chronic illnesses take enough pills or insulin daily and pray daily not to be a statistic. Being middle aged with type one diabetes and heart problems I pray daily that I don't get the H1N1 that has hit my home and town hard this fall.Having said that I have had the flu shot and am waiting anxiously for the shots to come to my town.
Posted by: Kim | Nov 12, 2009 11:48:11 PM
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