Affecting the youth (Image: Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty)
AS THE dust settles from the swine flu pandemic, the notion that it was no worse than seasonal flu persists. But it seems that while the number of deaths in the US was comparable to a bad seasonal flu, swine flu claimed three times as many years of life because the victims were so young.
In Paris, France, this week, the Council of Europe held further hearings on allegations that health agencies “faked” the pandemic to make money on vaccines. Such accusations irk flu researcher Lone Simonsen of George Washington University in Bethesda,…
