{"id":4672,"date":"2009-04-29T07:50:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T12:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2009-04-29T07:50:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T12:50:54","slug":"as-epidemics-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4672","title":{"rendered":"As Epidemics Go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Swine Flu is not the big kahuna.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fairly preventable and treatable; it spreads through media that the average person can, with a little conscientious thought, cut down on.<\/p>\n<p>Still, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/HEALTH\/04\/29\/swine.flu\/index.html\">it&#8217;s serious now:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I can confirm the very sad news out of Texas that a child has died of the H1N1 virus,&#8221; the CDC&#8217;s Dr. Richard Besser said.&#8221;As a parent and a pediatrician, my heart goes out to the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the child was about 2 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the 64 confirmed swine flu cases in the United States have been reported in Texas, according to the CDC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s been serious in Mexico for quite some time; the deaths there are no less real (although to the American media, which judging by the <em>Today <\/em>show is already switching into full-blown panic mode, a life north of the Rio Grande is definitely more newsworthy than one on the other side).<\/p>\n<p>At any rate &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=4&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fflu%2Fswine%2Fswineflu_you.htm&#038;ei=70z4SfE9paY1g_2Frg8&#038;usg=AFQjCNHrypkjHauu2LES-k4W4sBM50s-eA&#038;sig2=QvWhRdv0rDVO_hBD9bLVcw\">stay informed<\/a>, and don&#8217;t sneeze on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Swine Flu is not the big kahuna.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fairly preventable and treatable; it spreads through media that the average person can, with a little conscientious thought, cut down on. Still, it&#8217;s serious now: &#8220;I can confirm the very sad news out of Texas that a child has died of the H1N1 virus,&#8221; the CDC&#8217;s Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}