{"id":1133,"date":"2009-07-25T19:01:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2013-11-27T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T17:36:37","slug":"swineflu-40-percent-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/swineflu-40-percent-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Swine flu could hit up to 40 percent in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding: 0 3px 3px 0;\" alt=\"Swine flu could hit up to 40 percent in US\" src=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/Ghqex.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a disturbing new projection, health officials say up to 40 percent of Americans could get <a class=\"zem_slink broken_link\" title=\"Swine influenza\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swine_influenza\" rel=\"wikipedia\">swine flu<\/a> this year and next and several hundred thousand could die without a successful vaccine campaign and other measures.<\/p>\n<p>The estimates by the <span id=\"lw_1248503598_0\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\"><a class=\"zem_slink broken_link\" title=\"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\" rel=\"homepage\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a><\/span> are roughly twice the number of those who catch flu in a normal season and add greater weight to hurried efforts to get a new vaccine ready for the fall <span id=\"lw_1248503598_1\">flu season<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Swine flu has already hit the United States harder than any other nation, but it has struck something of a glancing blow that&#8217;s more surprising than devastating. The virus has killed about 300 Americans and experts believe it has sickened more than 1 million, comparable to a seasonal flu with the weird ability to keep spreading in the summer.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[via Yahoo News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a disturbing new projection, health officials say up to 40 percent of Americans could get swine flu this year and next and several hundred thousand could die without a successful vaccine campaign and other measures. The estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are roughly twice the number of those who catch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}