{"id":341,"date":"2009-05-04T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/processworkhub.gr\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-05-04T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T04:50:00","slug":"%ce%b3%cf%81%ce%af%cf%80%ce%b7-%ce%b1-%ce%bc%ce%b9%ce%b1-%ce%b1%ce%ba%cf%8c%ce%bc%ce%b1-%ce%bf%cf%80%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/processworkhub.gr\/blog\/%ce%b3%cf%81%ce%af%cf%80%ce%b7-%ce%b1-%ce%bc%ce%b9%ce%b1-%ce%b1%ce%ba%cf%8c%ce%bc%ce%b1-%ce%bf%cf%80%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ae\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0393\u03c1\u03af\u03c0\u03b7 \u0391… \u03bc\u03b9\u03b1 \u03b1\u03ba\u03cc\u03bc\u03b1 \u03bf\u03c0\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/span>CommonDreams.Org<\/a><\/p>\n

Aporkalypse Now\u2014<\/span>Finding the Real Swine in the Pandemic Pandemonium <\/span>
by Lucinda Marshall
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For the last eight years, there has been no shortage of things to worry about– Bin Laden, Al Queda, Saddam Hussein, Anthrax, Bird Flu, Katrina, sub-prime mortgages, health care costs, gas pump prices, unemployment, stock price plunges and now we have H1N1, the non-Kosher virus formerly known as Swine Flu. <\/p>\n

The news media is pigging out (sorry, I’ll try to contain myself) with 24\/7 coverage of the potential pandemic and breathless reports that this is the new Black Death and millions could die. According to MSNBC<\/a> [1], “H1N1 swine flu is seen as the biggest risk since H5N1 avian flu re-emerged in 2003, killing 257 people of 421 infected in 15 countries. In 1968 a “Hong Kong” flu pandemic killed about 1 million people globally, and a 1957 pandemic killed about 2 million. Seasonal flu kills 250,000 to 500,000 people in a normal year, including healthy children in rich countries.” However, as I write this, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that, only 12 people have died so far<\/a> [2] of this outbreak of H1N1. <\/p>\n

To put all of this in further perspective, it is useful to compare these numbers to the annual number of deaths from other causes. <\/p>\n

According to WHO <\/a>[3]: 1 million people die from malaria each year<\/span>

2 million from AIDS<\/span>
2 million from air pollution<\/span>
7.4 million from cancer<\/span>
17.5 million from cardiovascular disease<\/span>
1.6 million from tuberculosis <\/p>\n

In other words, we KNOW that 31.5 million people will die each year from causes that in large part could be prevented, but 7 deaths a pandemic makes?<\/p>\n

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