How is the Providence School Department in Providence, Rhode Island Preparing for Swine Flu?
swine flu (H1N1) pandemic. But, first, what exactly is the Swine Flu? Simply put, the Swine Flu is a strain of influenza discovered to have been transferred from pigs to humans. Despite contrary beliefs, the swine flu is not a new thing. The first incidences of the swine flu in humans was discovered in 1975 in four army recruits. The disease, believed to be related to the pandemic of Spanish influenza that killed 50 million Americans in 1918, was isolated and a vaccine was created and released to the public in 1976. However, the vaccinations had big problems: hundreds of people who received the vaccine also received a nasty side effect called Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which causes paralysis. G-B was traced back to the vacinne, and more than $84 million dollars worth of liability claims were paid to the victims, which is of little comfort, I’d suspect, to someone who is paralyzed. Makes me think twice about getting my flu shot, how about you? The Swine Flu, H1N1, is a mutated version of
