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Title: In India swine flu panic spreads faster than virus
Source: AP
URL Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap ... Am2ZHY05fhSE2xV9VJb0wD9A2K50G0
Published: Aug 16, 2009
Author: By RAVI NESSMAN (AP)
Post Date: 2009-08-16 02:24:22 by TwentyTwelve
Keywords: Swine Flu, Panic, Hysteria, NWO Propaganda
Views: 773
Comments: 29

In India swine flu panic spreads faster than virus

By RAVI NESSMAN (AP) – 1 day ago

NEW DELHI, India — The streets of the western city of Pune were half-empty, schools in Mumbai were ordered closed, and people suffering aches flooded hospitals across the country as India confronted dueling outbreaks of swine flu and swine flu panic.

Twenty people have died from the flu here, according to government numbers available Friday, and 1,283 have been confirmed infected in this nation of 1.2 billion people. But fear of the flu has outpaced the virus itself.

"The amount of frenzy or hysteria is totally disproportionate to the overall reality of the disease," Dr. Jai Narain, the head of the regional communicable disease office for the World Health Organization, said Friday.

Breathless reports of swine flu have dominated India's 24-hour news channels desperate for stories amid the August doldrums. That in turn has helped whip the public into a frenzy, even in cities with relatively few cases of flu.

In New Delhi, where no deaths have been reported, people have begun wearing surgical masks in the street. In Lucknow, parents demanded their children be tested.

"Over 1,000 people lined up at different hospitals. ... Eleven of them tested positive," Dr. R.R. Bharati, a top health official in the northern city of Lucknow said earlier this week.

In Mumbai, the country's financial capital, the government closed all schools and movie theaters, hammering the Bollywood film industry over the long Independence Day holiday weekend. The government also asked malls in Mumbai to tone down their traditional holiday sales to keep away crowds.

The nearby city of Pune is India's worst affected, with 12 of the country's 20 deaths.

There, the streets were half-empty, the usual crowds shunned the shopping malls and many workers stopped showing up at offices. With schools closed, worried parents kept their children shut inside.

Many who did venture out wore surgical masks, despite a shortage that sent the price of a single mask skyrocketing from 5 rupees (10 cents) to 150 rupees ($3).

"The situation in Pune is alarming considering the number of ... positive cases and deaths. We are augmenting the resources in the city to handle the situation. However, we appeal to people not to panic," said Chandrakant Dalvi, a city official.

In response to the outbreak, India's government has set up testing centers around the country and plans to increase its stock of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to 30 million doses, the government said. But officials have also asked people to stop wearing surgical masks in the street unless they or a family member are infected.

"I cannot see anything to panic about," said Dr. Jayaprakash Muliyil, a professor of epidemiology at Christian Medical College in Vellore. "These kinds of rumors are not good for the health of the nation."

The fatality rate from the virus is relatively low, though scientists worry it could eventually mutate into a more deadly strain, he said.

Yet the flu has garnered far more attention than India's raft of other health problems, including tuberculosis, which kills nearly 1,000 Indians every day, according to World Health Organization figures.

In Pune, more than 11,000 people lined up to be tested for the swine flu virus Thursday and 73 tested positive, Mahesh Zagade, a city official, told reporters.

"I think we are suffering a psychological disorder. We keep asking each other if we feel sick, cold, have a body ache, fever or breathlessness," said a 25-year-old man waiting to be tested in Pune who identified himself as Aditya. "I called up my doctor this morning and told him that I felt like I was suffocating."

The entire staff at one pharmacy donned gloves and masks after hearing a pharmacist was among those killed by the virus.

"We were planning to shut down, but we know we can't do that because people here need medicine," said Anand Agarwal, the 42-year-old pharmacist.

According to the World Health Organization, there were 177,457 cases of swine flu and 1,462 deaths across the world as of August 12.

After more than a week of feverish coverage of India's outbreak, some news organizations are now counseling calm.

"Stop the panic," urged the Hindustan Times.

Associated Press writers Biswajeet Banerjee in Lucknow and Jeeja Purohit in Pune contributed to this report.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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#1. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)

Swine flu is a hoax
it is no more real than global warming
but people believe swine flu is real and panic about it

palo verde  posted on  2009-08-16   2:29:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: palo verde (#1)

Swine flu is a hoax

Big Phama can take their flu vaccine and stick it to themselves where the sun don't shine.

sizzlerguy  posted on  2009-08-16   2:38:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: sizzlerguy, palo verde, Original_Intent (#3)

"Yet the Swine flu has garnered far more attention than India's raft of other health problems, including tuberculosis, which kills nearly 1,000 Indians every day, according to World Health Organization figures."

TwentyTwelve  posted on  2009-08-16   2:41:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: TwentyTwelve (#4)

other health problems

Wouldn't ya' all just love to see those SWINES at Big Pharma take a big finiancial beating on this sizzlin' hoax known as the swine flu.?

sizzlerguy  posted on  2009-08-16   2:45:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: sizzlerguy (#5)

Wouldn't ya' all just love to see those SWINES at Big Pharma take a big finiancial beating on this sizzlin' hoax known as the swine flu.?

Take at look at this:

Title: Calling Big Pharma’s Bluff – Swine Flu Misfires in the UK

"But what is very interesting about all this is that although many people have been scared by all the hype (which has been led by the World Health Organization and by the UK government) they are also beginning to learn the lesson and have become profoundly cynical about what is going on - more people joke about it than are scared, but they are also beginning to be very fed up."

TwentyTwelve  posted on  2009-08-16   2:48:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: TwentyTwelve (#7)

profoundly cynical

Big pharma didn't count on the wisdom transmitted by the internet. All Big pharma and Big Brother were thinking about were $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

sizzlerguy  posted on  2009-08-16   2:54:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: sizzlerguy, christine, ALL (#8)

profoundly cynical

Big pharma didn't count on the wisdom transmitted by the internet. All Big pharma and Big Brother were thinking about were $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Big pharma didn't count on informed people like most of the 4um members.

Very few of us will take their poison.

TwentyTwelve  posted on  2009-08-16   2:57:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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