EiR Blog

Since the first reported cases of swine flu, or influenza H1N1, were reported in Mexico in the early months of this year the subject has hardly been out of the media. Much of the coverage has been sensationalist and misleading and has led to what many natural health experts are saying is unnecessary public panic over the disease. In a Special Swine Flu Update published on the highly popular Mercola.com earlier this week Dr. Joseph Mercola brings our attention to a study published in the the British Medical Journal:   'A thorough , comparative analysis of several flu pandemics has been published in the prestigious British Medical Journal, that gives evidence that the H1N1 swine flu is of "the same subtype as seasonal H1N1 that has been circulating since 1977." The author points out the substantial confusion between the high public attention the present H1N1 scare is receiving and the very...