Tests at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia support the premise that large numbers of people who got sick this fall actually fell prey to a unusually severe and continuing -outbreak of rhinovirus, known as a major cause of the common cold.
Experts say they can’t test everyone who have flu like symptoms so apparently many diagnosed swine flu cases were no more then a bad cold. Evidently the CDC doesn’t track rhinovirus so there is no statistical data to substantiate or deny the findings.
Rhinovirus is exceedingly common and since ‘the common cold’ is easily dismissed as just a nuisance sickness and not a threat to kill it is sadly overlooked as a health threat.
This specific strain of rhinovirus is severe enough to mimic mild flu symptoms such as those found with the H1N1 virus. Even though we have been told that H1N1 is a most deadly strain in actuality more people die yearly from more common strains of flu worldwide.
Susan Coffin (coffin and hospital; UGH!), director of infection prevention and control at Children’s Hospital fears that parents won’t immunize their children for H1N1 thinking they already had the flu and have become immune to a second outbreak. “Maybe their child is still susceptible to H1N1 and should still get the vaccine,” Coffin said.
This rhinovirus event has caught the medical industry off guard and are now trying to re-evaluate the situation. The wolf has already cried for all children to get their H1N1 shot, so what now to do with the rhinovirus that is so similar to the symptoms found with H1N1. It is unlikely that the CDC will make any public statement regarding this new revelation so we will continue with the herd mentality of immunization.
Last time I checked there was no vaccine for the common cold but I’m sure those industrious pharmaceutical companies are feverously working on a serum that temporarily eliminates ALL cold symptoms. What a money making boom that would be.
Oh, what a minute we already have such remedy it’s called ‘CHICKEN SOUP’.