Two L.A. County deaths possibly related to swine flu, coroner says [UPDATED]

Los Angeles Times ^ | 4/28/2009 | Andrew Blankstein

[America2012]

Two L.A. County deaths possibly related to swine flu, coroner says [UPDATED]

9:09 AM | April 28, 2009

The Los Angeles County coroner's office is investigating two recent deaths that officials say could be related to the recent global swine flu outbreak. However, no tests have come back positive for the swine flu, and medical examiners have not officially determined what caused the deaths.

[Updated at 9:30 a.m.: Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey said his office would collect specimens from the deceased and send them to the county public health department, which would determine whether either person died from the swine flu. If so, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be notified, Harvey said.]

[America2012]

If you haven't stocked up on food, you better do it now. When this hits the MSM, the stuff is going to hit the fan.

[camle]

I wonder how many times people are recalling Stephen King’s “the stand” about now.

[Pete]

Trash can, where you goin' boy? Your eyes are feet apart...

I swear he had no name.

[Adder]

So whats with the headline?

2 people died of something.

[Trust but Verify]

Headline is very misleading. No confirmation these deaths were from swine flu.

[ScottinVA]

“I wonder how many times people are recalling Stephen King’s “the stand” about now.”

Yep. Can you hear Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” yet?

[MikeWUSAF]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gzz357patY4-QaJFvo9O95zMM_EQD97RGBLG1

Flu deaths are nothing new in the United States or elsewhere. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 36,000 people died of flu-related causes each year, on average, during the 1990s in the United States. But the new flu strain is a combination of pig, bird and human viruses that humans may have no natural immunity to.

[Thane_Banquo]

Who else suspects they were illegals freshly over the border?

[ScottinVA]

MY LIFE FOR YOU-U-U-U-U!!! Wow, that seems eerily similar, too!

[rwfromkansas]

How long will results take?

If we start seeing deaths here, that will create a panic at some point.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

You are right because according to the MSM, no one ever has ever died from the Flu until this Swine flu started.

[OB1kNOb]

So that’s two more deaths for Mexico, right?

[Thane_Banquo]

Yep. Can you hear Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” yet?

Are you suggesting that the cure to swine flu is... MORE COWBELL?!?

[savedbygrace]

Correct title is: Two L.A. County deaths possibly related to swine flu, coroner says [UPDATED]

They haven’t gotten any test results back. Let’s not create a panic here.

[sionnsar]

Article is speculative, headline definitive.

What's a little honesty and accuracy in jernlism today?

[rwfromkansas]

Any discussion or comparison to deaths of the regular flu are invalid and should not even be brought up.

This is a new strain. It really doesn’t matter that the regular flu kills some as well because this is killing YOUNG, HEALTHY people.

[buccaneer81]

Can you hear Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” yet?

Beats hearing Larry Underwood's "Baby Can You Dig Your Man."

[blam]

On my way to get some Chinese food 'to-go', I heard on the news (truck radio) that Mexican authorities had declared that restaurants could only serve food 'to-go.'

Has anyone else heard this?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I’m hearing that and “Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?” on a seemingly eternal loop this week.

[camle]

as long as that ditzy girl with the prematurely grey hair stays away. she’s bad news.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Damn... beat me to it.

Note to self: read the whole thread before posting.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

"...Beats hearing Larry Underwood's "Baby Can You Dig Your Man..."

you know, I thought the book version sounded better. ((snort))

[Slapshot68]

“Let’s not create a panic here.”

Really, since that’s exactly what the MSM wants to do. No point in helping them.

[nyconse]

This is not good...those guys were young...those dying in Mexico are between 25 and 45 too...flu usually kills the very young and the very old...start preparing folk...it’s going to get ugly.

[Braak]

Guess the lid comes off now, doesn’t it?

[jiggyboy]

Hah, this is nothing, check out just the captions on the pictures on another flu-related story and your head will explode.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1173672/Obamas-swine-flu-scare-shaking-hands-archaeologist-died-week-later.html

[Petronski]

Look past the thread headline to the real (updated) headline.

[nyconse]

Damn, I am not supposed to have to live this...no interesting times thanks...first we have a 1030’s style depression and now a 1918 style flu pandemic...the injustice and me a late baby boomer who was promised the good life...sigh.

[SpinnerWebb]

Come on down!

I *love* The Alarm!

[nyconse]

Damn, I am not supposed to have to live this...no interesting times thanks...first we have a 1930’s style depression and now a 1918 style flu pandemic...the injustice and me a late baby boomer who was promised the good life...sigh.

[Bernard Marx]

Totally misleading headline. Read the linked story.

[nyconse]

You saying it’s all hype?

[nyconse]

God, I hope it is hype...nice little mild flu over in a few weeks...that’s the ticket.

[jiggyboy]

I heard on the news (truck radio) that Mexican authorities had declared that restaurants could only serve food 'to-go.'

headline on drudge: "Officials in Mexico City on Tuesday ordered all eateries closed to public...", but no link.

[Petronski]

The thread title is hype. The story is gravely important and chilling.

[buccaneer81]

you know, I thought the book version sounded better. ((snort))

LOL!

[cpdiii]

The way this disease should be evaluated is as follows:
1. How contagious is the pathogen?
2. What is the morbidity and mortality percentages to be expected in the general population.

Until those two questions are answered any speculation about the danger and extent of the disease are not grounded in fact. This disease may be a horrible threat are it may not be a great threat. With the information that is now available we do not know at this time.

[Red_Devil 232]

Yep! Two people died! But To keep with PC their deaths could be attributed to ... Swine Flu?

But we really don't know if it was Swine Flu.

But since Swine Flu is in the news we will do our part and contribute to the hysteria and report that they could have had Swine Flu!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Who else suspects they were illegals freshly over the border?

Bingo!

[swarthyguy]

>>Let’s not create a panic here.

HEYHEYHEY!

A good panic is a wonderful tonic. Gets peoples minds off other things.

Can’t you see the glee and the drool in the eyes of pols like Bloomputz and TV script readers......

[nyconse]

Thanks...so I value you your opinion should I be at the grocery store stocking up on water and canned goods? I have four kids and a disabled sis in law who lives with me...feeling very worried.

[nyconse]

We know this is contagious because of the high school kids...what is the rate of morbidity...that we do not know.

[jiggyboy]

Guv Arnold just declared a State of Emergency in CA, per CNBC.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Over here, although it is not out of the realm of possibility we will get hit somehow and we probably will get our first Mexiflu case too, as did Korea apparantly, nevertheless, they will NOT take this sitting down here, and we are fortunate "PC" generally speaking is nearly non-existent in Japan, as the tagline says. Japanese won't care the slightest bit about isolating foreigners OR Japanese who end up catching the Mexican flu from having traveled there and upon returning to Japan, despite how "racist" or "insensitive" it might be to take these social precautions. (We USED to do this in the states....anybody remember seeing a home with a "Quarantine" sticker on the front door/porch and the people inside forbidden from coming outside?)

"Insensitive" to the Japanese is imperiling whole segments of a population through a horrific disease all in an effort to be "sensitive" with liberal sentiments which in and of themselves are necessarily suicidal.

On this side: extra food/water/cooking supplies CHECK, tamiflu CHECK, cash if needed CHECK, generator/batteries CHECK, bug out kit CHECK, surgical Vilene-type masks CHECK (Japanese love these kinds of masks in public for cold/flu control), hand disenfectants CHECK, etc etc. ad nauseum -- and still slowly adding to it -- I recommend the same for folks stateside, pandemic or no pandemic, just common sense and considering who is in the White House these days. Much of the usual preparation for earthquakes or typhoons for this fragile little archipelago, except perhaps for the Roche stuff.

Now, if we could just get Kim Jong il off our back.

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[A Texan]

Exactly what I was thinking. So basically it could be the pig flu or they could have fallen out of an airplane. Is this what it takes to be a reporter these days?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Swine flu is putting a damper on Obama’s 100 Day Sellebration.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Who else suspects they were illegals freshly over the border?

I'm thinking Swiss tourists .../bs

[MAD-AS-HELL]

how many young healthy people has this Flu killed? What is your source because, with all due respect, I don’t believe it. No one in the US had died. It’s all in Mexico. And there are tons of variables as to why people died, like underlying medical issues only exacerbated by the flu.

[America2012]

Here's a second source on this story;

Two Possible Swine Flu Deaths Probed In L.A. County - KTLA

http://www.ktla.com/landing_topstories/?Two-Possible-Swine-Flu-Deaths-Probed-in-=1&blockID=277903&feedID=1198