H1N1 (Swine) flu kills 17 people in Venezuela

[Turborama]

Source: NBC

8:17 AM, May 28, 2013

CARACAS, Venezuela - News reports and local authorities in Venezuela have reported that an outbreak of the H1N1 flu has killed 17 people and infected another 250.

H1N1, often called Swine Flu, was a flu strain that swept around the world in 2009 and 2010 in a pandemic. Most of the recent cases in Venezuela have been reported near the country's border with Colombia.

The federal government has not confirmed the figures reported in the media, but officials said high risk groups had largely been immunized earlier this year.

The World Health Organization says more than 18,000 people were killed in the pandemic that began in 2009, but a study in a British medial journal said the actual death toll may have been 15 times higher than that.

Read more: http://www.9news.com/news/article/338503/188/H1N1-flu-kills-17-people-in-Venezuela

[geek tragedy]

1. Has Maduro blamed this on Obama yet? nt

[iandhr]

2. No but thats coming soon.

On that type of stuff Maduro is crazier then Chavez.

[Bacchus4.0]

4. you know if the US can give Chavez cancer, swine flu is a piece of cake n/t

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[bitchkitty]

7. No, but our resident water carriers for the right

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will start blaming Maduro in 3,2,1...

[Festivito]

8. You could have started your count below zero.

Madura is smart enough to know that Obama is not CIA.

[SkyDaddy7]

10. Are you sure about that?

From what I have read he is NUTTIER than Chavez was when it comes to absurd Conspiracies.

[Festivito]

12. One could find a Walter Mitty world up there.

He take a whole church, come Mitty to a north woods.

[bitchkitty]

11. He may be smart enough, but I said,

"our resident right wing" - they are clearly smart enough to know better, but that means nothing to them. They don't spread propaganda because they think it's true - they know it's not true.

[Festivito]

13. Too much money disparity involved.

Makes it easier to find a person's price.

Por su dicho, estamos todos mas sequro.

[Archae]

3. I had that H1N1 flu a couple years ago.

I felt so lousy I felt like I had died.

[Posteritatis]

6. It crippled a friend of mine for a good two years

Coma for a couple months, nerve damage from complications, the works. Took him about a year and a half before he could set the cane aside. Was a real mess.

[u4ic]

9. I got pneumonia from it

Took 2 rounds of antibiotics before it cleared up. For about 4 months afterwards I got winded doing even the slightest bit of anything. I still have to watch out for colds, they go straight to my chest now (never did before I got sick that time).

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Not good news.