Comments on: Teresa Forcades on the Swine Flu Epidemic http://www.politicolnews.com/teresa-forcades-on-swine-flu/ Politics News, commentary, daily updated US politics Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:40:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: karen http://www.politicolnews.com/teresa-forcades-on-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-725 karen Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:54:02 +0000 http://politicolnews.com/?p=3317#comment-725 She doesn't have a medical degree if she says there are only 4 types of virus strains affecting humans, A, B, C and D. High school biology should tell you that flu viruses change all the time, there are thousands of strains. In fact, new ones get pandemic every year during flu season. And sometimes they get DNA from other animals like birds and pigs, and create very virulent strains. H1N1 is one of those, and it has already killed more people in the US than the seasonal flu (since August). She doesn’t have a medical degree if she says there are only 4 types of virus strains affecting humans, A, B, C and D.

High school biology should tell you that flu viruses change all the time, there are thousands of strains. In fact, new ones get pandemic every year during flu season. And sometimes they get DNA from other animals like birds and pigs, and create very virulent strains. H1N1 is one of those, and it has already killed more people in the US than the seasonal flu (since August).

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