Swine Flu Suspected To Have Infected Hundreds Of School Children

In New York the City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden confirmed Tuesday that they believe that hundreds and hundreds of children that attend schools there have contracted the swine flu influenza. At this time there isn’t any hard evidence to confirm that hundreds have been infected with the virus but with the rampant spreading it would not be surprising to see all of these children that spent so much together end up with the swine flu.

The city of New York now has the most confirmed cases of the Swine flu with the number at over 50 including infections in a Roman Catholic high school (one faculty member has been confirmed to have the swine flu here) and several other public schools. Besides confirmed cases there have been multiple instances where flu symptoms are being reported but swine cases have yet to be confirmed.

As I have suspected all along, the swine flu appears to be in full force and spreading quickly. Despite this there is no reason to panic because we have only seen 1 confirmed death in the United States due to the swine flu. The normal human flu causes over 30,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and spreads like wild fire too. At this point there is no reason to think that the swine flu virus will be any worse that the regular flu that we experience every year.