[SpiritWarrior]

Well, many of these were indeed young people with immature immune systems or elderly or otherwise sick/ not taking care of themselves. More than 1000 in mexico are infected with it but only a hundred or so have died. This is mostly to do with Mexico's healthcare system and poverty level. A flu can be a big issue if you can't afford meds. The first death in the US was a 23 month old child. I say again, the flu is the flu. It is no more deadly in itself than all the other strains, but people who aren't vaccinated against it and cannot afford to get sick are susceptible to this one.

Understand, the regular flu can do all this. People die from flu every single year due to lack of treatment, mistreatment, complications, immune system disorders, etc. but is is not reported because it is considered commonplace by now. The media is doing us a disservice by playing up the fear here. It is a pandemic but it is no different than any other strain. Next year, this strain will be in vaccinations. The previous swine outbreak actually had the vaccines causing more damage than the virus.

When you have any flu you do the following. Do not go to work and overwork yourself if you have the flu, drink lots of fluids, take at least 3 proactive medications and get plenty of fresh air (the last one people don't practice much). If you ignore these, you open yourself up to complications and even death, as your body pushes itself to the limit while fighting the virus.

Mr. Gupta is talking fear here. There are no new crazy symptoms with the swine flu. He is not lying per se, but what he's doing is making it seem like swine flu causes new and crazy symtoms with fluid in the lungs caused by an autoimmune response. What he is describing are the complications that can arrive from any flu if you don't take care of it. This is well documented in medicine, and this is what happens to the elderly when they get it. Now, these people may well have these issues arising, but these are considered cases of complications arising. For him to almost suggest these are an integral part of the swine flu symptoms is BS, I just helped treat someone with it last week and they have fully recovered with nothing like this arising, simply because they took care of themselves and did what they needed to do.