Did the swine flu kill more people?

But more deaths from swine flu

06/28/2012

Did the H1N1 flu virus (also called swine flu) cause more deaths than previously thought? At any rate, US researchers claim this and presented new study results. Accordingly, the mortality rate should be many times higher than previously calculated.

First, the so-called swine flu spread rapidly in 2009 in Mexico and the United States. After the epidemic had also found the way Africa, Asia and Europe, there was panic in the population. The first rumors of numerous deaths quickly spread. In the summer of 2010, the swine flu was even classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic, for which it received some fierce criticism. Officially, the WHO later spoke of 18,500 laboratory confirmed deaths caused by the H1N1 virus worldwide. Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, however, came to quite different numbers, which they determined using a new computational model. The pig handles demanded much more victims than initially thought?

New model for the detection of deaths from swine flu
A research team around Dr. Fatimah S. Dawood of the US Centers for Disease Control Atlanta published in the latest issue of the British Journal „The Lancet“ their study results, which caused about 280,000 deaths from the swine flu. According to researchers, the results are based on a new calculation model. Data were taken into account for H1N1 deaths from twelve countries. Countries with low, middle and high income were used. In addition, scientists determined the mortality rate of patients with symptomatic lower respiratory disease from five prosperous industrialized countries. Then, the over-life of cardiovascular diseases was detected during the swine flu pandemic in the five countries. On this basis, the data could then be transferred to countries with insufficient data. For example, while 38 percent of the world's population lives in Africa and Southeast Asia, only 12 percent of laboratory-confirmed H1N1 deaths were reported from these regions.

According to the researchers' calculations, 201,200 deaths due to respiratory disease from the H1N1 virus occurred during the pandemic. However, the range is large, ranging from a possible 105,700 to 395,000 deaths. In addition, it is said to have come to another 83,300 deaths due to over-life of cardiovascular diseases in the same period, according to researchers. The fluctuation range here is 46,000 to 179,900 deaths. Eighty percent of victims were under the age of 64 at the time of death. The scientists found that 51 percent of deaths occurred in Africa and Southeast Asia, with the highest death rate for Africa being calculated.

Was WHO influenced by pharmaceutical companies??
The WHO's decision to declare swine flu a global pandemic was harshly criticized. For some of the authors involved in the creation of the WHO guidelines on dealing with influenza pandemics should also receive compensation from the pharmaceutical companies „GlaxoSmithKline "and „The WHO vehemently rejected any allegations of bribery or bias, even though these companies have earned billions of vaccines.

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