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Not Ebola, The Flu Killed 19 Children This Week – Silence

But the election has passed and saying the word “flu” does not stir up the fear that many politicians need to win elections. Remember the dreaded ebola that “crossed our southern borders” with ISIS insurgents, the disease bound to wipe out America because Obama had no clue?

Yea, that ebola was the topic in the midterm elections as Republicans found their talking point of fear and hammered it home until the swept both the House and Senate, and now that they’re in power, the word ebola is just a faint memory.

Meanwhile, the flu has already killed 45 kids, 19 this week alone, but the Republican fear mongers are already in power, so dead kids mean nothing. And the disease, currently in 46 states according to the government’s weekly FluView surveillance report, goes unnoticed.

Republicans are already in power. Fearing people about the deadly flu would be pointless. We wait ’till the next election when their base needs a good scaring out to the polls to talk about the flu! Until then, carry on. Nothing to see here except young dead kids.

Fears Of Bird Flu Outbreak As New Cases Found In China

The bird flu has been discovered in two new cases in China in what has become the second outbreak in that country this year.

The cases were discovered in Guiyang, located in Southwest China. There a 21-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man tested positive for the H1N1 bird flu virus over the weekend, the Global Post reported. Both were taken in to a hospital for treatment and were listed in critical condition.

“They are in critical condition and medical workers are carrying out emergency treatment. No epidemiological connections have been found between the two cases,” the Chinese health ministry stated (via Xinhua).

The two began developing symptoms on February 2 and February 3, and investigators believe neither had direct contact with birds before falling ill.

The new bird flu cases have sparked fears of an outbreak in China. From Reuters:

“China is considered one of the nations most at risk from bird flu epidemics because it has the world’s biggest poultry population and many chickens in rural areas are kept close to humans.”

The bird flu cases in Guiyang makes the second major city in China to be struck by the disease. In January, a 19-year-old migrant worker died in Beijing after contracting bird flu.

Since the first major outbreak in 2003, bird flu has been responsible for 365 deaths across the world, the World Health Organization noted. It is most commonly spread through direct contact between birds and humans, but health experts worry that it could mutate to spread by person-to-person contact.