Sunday, May 03, 2009

Mexican flu: Fudging the death toll [Bloggers needed to report what they are seeing]

SHOOT: According to official figures 19 people have died in Mexico and one in the US. 11 deaths occurred in the last 24 years. This suggests that 1/3rd of the total fatalities occurred yesterday, and the rest over the last 10 days. Logically these figures must appear shaky. This is a disturbing precedent if it is true because it means the effort to suppress information has begun. Bloggers must report firsthand data in their areas in order to establish a secondary pool of data - besides the official government announcements that are then spread by mainstream media.
clipped from news.yahoo.com

Mexico reported three new deaths from the swine flu epidemic late Saturday from a virus that has killed 19 in people in Mexico, one in the U.S. and is spreading across Asia and Europe.

Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said there were 11 cases of people suspected to have died in Mexico from the virus in the last 24 hours. The alarming news came after the epidemic's toll in Mexico appeared to have been leveling off.

Commuters, wearing protective face masks to prevent infection from swine flu,
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