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Worst Flu Epidemic in Years Sweeps Across US, Over 100 Americans have Died

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By Michael Synder

This flu season is already off to a record-setting beginning, and many believe that it could ultimately be the worst that we have seen in decades.  In fact, it has been reported that if we stay on this current pace that this could truly be the worst flu season in more than 50 years.  As you will see below, the CDC is reporting widespread flu activity from coast to coast, and the death toll has already crossed 100.  Here in the United States, flu season usually begins in October and ends in May, and so we still have a long way to go before it is over.

Normally the mainstream media tries very hard to keep the public calm about these things, but even the Washington Post admits that we are having “a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad flu season”…

The nation is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad flu season.

Flu is widespread in 46 states, according to reports to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nationally, as of mid-December, at least 106 people had died of the infectious disease.

Usually a flu outbreak is centered in one portion of the country, but this one is different.  According to the CDC, this outbreak is affecting the entire nation, and the number of cases climbed another 5.8 percent within the past week…

“Flu is everywhere in the US right now,” said Dr. Dan Jernigan, director of the CDC’s influenza branch. “This is the first year we’ve had the entire continental US at the same level (of flu activity) at the same time.” It has been an early flu season that seems to be peaking now, he said, with a 5.8% increase in laboratory-confirmed cases this week over last.

Most people that get the flu don’t die, but it is very important for all of us to understand that this is a very serious outbreak.

In California, things have already gotten so bad that some hospitals have started to run out of Tamiflu

California has been particularly hard hit, with at least 27 deaths of people under 65 attributed to the flu, according to reports. As the number of cases continues to climb there, hospitals are beginning to run out of Tamiflu, the anti-viral medication used to treat the illness.

If you live in an area where the flu is running rampant, it may be wise to avoid public areas for a while.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of us cannot do that.  Most Americans have work or school commitments that cannot be avoided, and the flu can often spread very rapidly in those environments.

Back during the bird flu scare a few years ago, some schools actually closed for a time, and we are starting to see that happen again.  For example, one school down in Texas had a “flu day” on Friday…

A school in San Antonio will be closed Friday for a “flu day” amid an outbreak of influenza.

“While closed, our school will be launching a Super Clean of each classroom for the health of our faculty, staff and students,” San Antonio Christian School posted on Facebook.

Texas has been especially hard-hit by the flu this season, topping Walgreens’ Flu Index, which compiles data from prescriptions used to treat the virus’ symptoms.

Every year the authorities relentlessly promote the flu shot, but large numbers of people that got the flu shot this year are getting sick anyway.

Sadly, the flu shot is not likely to protect you from the very powerful strains of the flu that are dominant this flu season.  In fact, the experts are telling us that the flu shot was only “around 10 percent” effective during the flu season in Australia this year…

U.S. flu specialists say they won’t completely know how powerful this present season’s antibody is until the point that the season is finished. In any case, Australia’s experience recommends viability was just around 10 percent. In the United States, it is 40 to 60 percent powerful in a normal season. Immunizations are less defensive if strains are not the same as anticipated and if sudden transformations happen.

Hopefully everyone out there is stocking up on Vitamin C and echinacea.  We still have more than two months of winter left, and the spread of the flu appears to be accelerating.

If you do get sick, please stay home and don’t expose others.  Many of us like to try to battle through an illness, and in the process we can inadvertently share it with others.

Eventually this flu epidemic will pass, but for now we need to be smart as we weather this storm.

Michael Snyder is a pro-Trump candidate for Congress in Idaho’s First Congressional District, and you can learn how you can get involved in the campaign on his official website. His new book entitled “Living A Life That Really Matters” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.’

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/more-than-100-are-dead-as-the-worst-flu-epidemic-in-years-sweeps-across-the-united-states

 

 



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    • Man

      would be really interesting to see if those people who died had their vaccination

      • PaulTarsuss

        Well….here is certainly some light that’s being shed on the subject….

        /alternative/2018/01/massive-flu-outbreak-heres-the-real-story-the-media-wont-touch-the-lies-the-hoax-the-scandal-3588009.html

        Congrats to Jon Rappaport on an eye opening expose’.

        • Man

          That is just talk about false positives and misdiagnosis. You have that with any disease.

          That is the nature of flue or flue like symptoms.

          I mean hiv can cause flue like symptoms. a doctor can make the wrong diagnosis because of inexperience and thinks it is a flu.

          and the BMJ 2005; 331:1412 document is misquoted:

          Epidemiologistsrely on these statistical models because the International
          Classification of Diseases (ICD) code for influenza deaths severely
          undercounts the true number of deaths related to influenza[2].This
          is partly because influenza is rarely confirmed in the laboratory and
          partly because people are far more likely to die from secondary
          bacterial pneumonia or exacerbations of underlyingchronic diseases than
          from primary influenza pneumonia. To top it off, procedures to assign a
          single underlying cause of death strongly favor chronic conditions over
          acute infectious disease. The classic approach to overcome this problem
          is the Serfling regression model, which measures excess mortality
          abovean expected winter baseline [3],[4],[5].Methods based on a regression model guided by virus surveillance data have beendeveloped more recently[6],[7].All
          these approaches yield similar estimates of the average seasonal
          US influenza mortality burden when applied to the same time period
          (Table). Moreover, the deaths identified by the models only occur when
          influenza epidemics occur and are larger in influenza seasons dominated
          by severe A(H3N2)viruses[8].
          The important point is that regardless of what is recorded on death
          certificates, the deaths identified by the models would not have
          occurred in the absence of influenza.

    • patann

      -America, western rule is fastening upon the days and disasters of 1811, all beginning Oct to Nov, 2017, that has spent us, beginning it’s Thanksgivings holiday along a matrix of ten day counts, I kid you not. I was online just days ago warning about the pale horse judgment that’s to follow those cataclysms of October 2017, not realizing the day I did this was right along the anniversary of the nation and world worst such the like pandemic. Just like days before Hawaii inbound false missile alert, and the Bride would’ve been gone as well, I was online days prior. Apostle, THEY call me, was again warning all those procrastinating getting southeast of the mid-atlantic that they equally, get Jesus and escape. I can’t but help how many re-considered these warnings the second those alarms start blaring aloud?
      -I keep telling you, God weighing America’s blood feast this world and finding it guilty by a subtraction of 190 years, is a potential on going extinction level event. Seemingly mercifully calculated recently along ten day installments is simply as been described, God is longsuffering not wanting any of us to perish, sorta like the fours winds of cataclysmic being held back, Rev. 7. Though, unless we get to altars of Jesus and grab bags of exodus, the only sacrifices God will bless, there’s plenty of death and dying, pending these 31 springs of forewarnings, to be had, and the horse of hades follows with the pale horse for a reason, beware, Apb, wherein shall you suffer great tribulations? Get Jesus, see here, http://www.2016onewayprayer.blogspot.com

    • Canderson

      the National Safety Council estimates that as many as 40,000 people died in motor vehicles crashes
      http://fortune.com/2017/02/15/traffic-deadliest-year/

      Drug Deaths in America Are Rising Faster Than Ever
      AKRON, Ohio — Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000
      https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid-epidemic-drug-overdose-deaths-are-rising-faster-than-ever.html

      Americans are drinking themselves to death at record rates
      more than 30,700 Americans died from alcohol-induced causes
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/22/americans-are-drinking-themselves-to-death-at-record-rates/?utm_term=.70b1ab34be51

    • beLIEve

      Massive Flu Outbreak? Here’s the Real Story the Media Won’t Touch – The lies, the hoax, the scandal

      /alternative/2018/01/massive-flu-outbreak-heres-the-real-story-the-media-wont-touch-the-lies-the-hoax-the-scandal-3588009.html

      * * *

      VACCINES CAUSED 1918 “SPANISH FLU” Which Killed Millions

      US Vaccines Caused ‘Spanish Flu’

      “It was a common expression during the war that “MORE SOLDIERS WERE KILLED by VACCINE shots THAN BY shots from ENEMY guns.”–E. McBean

      “The 1918 ‘Spanish Flu’ started in American military Camp Funston, Fort Riley, USA, amongst troops making ready for W.W.I – taking on board vaccinations, recruit training and all. It eventually killed about 40,000,000 people worldwide. That flu strain only appeared briefly once again, according to the US Atlanta CDC. This was in 1976 and again it struck at the US army camp Fort Dix, USA, amongst recently vaccinated troops (and no one else EVER); Fort Dix is known to have been a vaccine trial centre. Was the world’s greatest ‘influenza’ scourge another well-hidden vaccine disaster?”—John P Heptonstall

      In 1918, the US ARMY :idea: FORCED the VACCINATION :idea: of 3,285,376 NATIVES in the PHILIPPINES when no epidemic was brewing, only the sporadic cases of the usual mild nature. Of the vaccinated persons, 47,369 came down with small-pox, and of these 16,477 died.
      In 1919 the experiment was doubled. 7,670,252 natives were vaccinated. Of these 65,180 victims came down with small-pox, and 44,408 died.
      In the first experiment, one-third died, and in the second, two-thirds of the infected ones died. —– from Dr. William Koch’s book, The Survival Factor in Neoplastic and Viral Diseases.

      https://www.vaccinationinformationnetwork.com/vaccines-caused-1918-spanish-flu-which-killed-millions/

    • Rockledge

      There is a graveyard in the state in which I live that has 3 of my uncles in it, dead from various kinds of viruses before they were 12. One was not yet 3. In the same county is another graveyard with their mother, who died of pneumonia when she was in her early thirties, and their grandmother ( her mother) who died a week after her.

      My point being, only 106 deaths from the flu during flu season? For the entire nation?
      Hell, 80 years ago more people than that died in the same township of the flu.

      It would take a HELL of a lot more deaths than that to scare me into letting some stranger push a load of whatever is in the syringe in me.

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