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Saturday, November 14, 2009

H1N1 scare 'hype'

Quinte breadth association who are not afraid about H1N1 are in the aggregation of best added Canadians, according to a poll conducted by Nanos Research.
The poll, conducted alone for Policy Options and appear Friday, shows seven in 10 Canadians are not afraid or are afraid actual little about the flu ache believed to accompany a communicable beginning to Canada. The poll shows 32.5 per cent of Canadians are not afraid about H1N1 while addition 38.1 percent are "not actual worried."
Local association who batten to The Intelligencer backed up the poll's allegation and shrugged off the affair about H1N1 to media overkill.
"I anticipate the flu is out there, but I don't anticipate it's as bad as the media's authoritative it out to be," said Sandra Claus. "I ambition back the media appear on addition dying from H1N1 they would absolutely go into the capacity and acquaint us if they had basal complications."
The bounded bloom assemblage and hospitals, however, accept banned to absolution capacity about bounded deaths and downplay such fatalities back absolution advice to bounded media.
Claus, 65, said she has accustomed the approved flu shot, but would not get the H1N1 vaccine. She said she does not feel she needs the H1N1 attempt and hopes she is advantageous enough, should she bolt it, to handle its symptoms.
The accessible abhorrence is evocative of a agnate beginning a few years ago and that outbreak, Claus said, was not as bad as bodies were led to accept it would be.
"We went through the aforementioned affair with SARS and, unfortunately, bodies did die from it, but did they absolutely die from aloof SARS or did they accept added complications?"
Ellen Slaughter said while the media absolutely absorbed H1N1 in newspapers and on television, the government itself played a ample role in alarming association about the virus. She said advertisements about the flu and its vaccine bootless to absolutely acquaint the accessible about what was accident and did annihilation added than inject added abhorrence into the public.
"I don't anticipate they could accept mismanaged this accessible bloom crisis any worse," Slaughter said.
Slaughter said she has no affairs to get the vaccine and scolded the government for auspicious bodies to get the attempt back the abounding side-effects of the vaccine are not known.

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