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[Best Syndication News] The H1N1 Swine Flu has caused 353 deaths in the United States so far with reports of two new deaths in Florida, and three more deaths in Massachusetts. There has been 5,514 people in the US that needed to be hospitalized because of the H1N1 infection.

The Centers for Disease control (CDC ) has come up with guidelines for their vaccination efforts for the H1N1 virus. They point out that those at the highest risk of having complications or death from the H1N1 virus should be vaccinated. Those that should be vaccinated when the vaccine is made available are pregnant women, people that live with children under the age of 6 months, health care workers and emergency personnel, people between the ages of 6 months through 24 years of age, and people from age 25 through 64 years that have a chronic health disorder or a compromised immune system.

The CDC estimate that the groups at risk would total around 159 million people living in the United States.

The vaccine is expected to become available in the Fall. Fox News' Glenn Beck said that it won't be out until October, and that it would take up to two doses to be effective and there likely won't be enough vaccines to go around. He was a bit gloomy in that the second wave may be like the great Flu Pandemic of 1918. He explained that the first run of the 1918 flu virus wasn't that deadly, it was the second wave of the virus that spread in the August that mutated in the deadly form. Here is the report by Glenn Beck http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535621,00.html .

By: Marlene Donor

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