Deseret News | Reader comments: Number of swine flu cases in Utah hits 80

Reader comments
Number of swine flu cases in Utah hits 80

Nicholas Cook | 7:59 a.m. May 15, 2009

I find it interesting that we make a huge fuss over a virus, tack on a name like "BIRD FLU", "SWINE FLU", and yet ignore the regular flu which kills thousands each year. But Media people have to make there money too and report on something and give us local folk something to type, blog, and comment about.

Andrew J. Dimitrov | 11:45 p.m. May 16, 2009

The real question is whether it is better to contract H1N1 now, considering the possibility of it mutating into a super virus.

The influenza of 1918 began as a harmless flu like virus in the Spring and Summer, but as the year progressed during the flu season (running in the Fall and Winter) the virus mutated and became deadly, killing millions.

Considering this is it better to become immune to the virus before it mutates with the potential to bring the world to its knees.

Franklin B. Rubenstein | 6:57 p.m. May 17, 2009

Andrew is right! I dunno what Nicholas is trying to say, the big fuss let me think a deadly disease wiping out the world as we know it. it's gonna get us before global warming.

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