Isolation for GA Residents with Swine Flu

It seems that if this were the deadly pandemic the media portays people would be perishing at a rate faster than .31%. Not to make light of ths flu, that was a mistake learned from the Spanish flu in 1918 when 50 million people died, but is there truly a need for the widespread panic? With the medical advances that developed since the early 1900's you would think this problem would go away quickly. The deadliest flus in the past appeared to be under control and then returned with a vairiant strain 6 months later.

As the CDC tracks the spread of the swine flu, metro- Atlanta residents probably wondered how much time it would take before it started spreading close to home. The most recent GA cases involve a student from a Henry county private school and a family in Cobb county who are all home on "voluntary isolation".

Swine flu vaccinations are also on the way. This shouldn't impress you because in 1976 when the swine flu last presented itself, more people died from the vaccine than from the genuine virus.

The verdict is still out on this entire event and you just need to make sure you are as healthy as possible. This flu apparently affects a population of people usually not harmed by the flu. The reports are stating that the elderly may be the safe population because of possible exposure with past flu epidemics with similar strains.