What we do and don’t know about swine flu

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"Read on. Generally, things aren't to be taken for granted with or without swine flu lurking in every direction it can get hold of. Good hygiene."


By PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT
Tue. Jul 7 - 4:45 AM

PLANNING on throwing a swine flu party for your kids and their friends?

Don’t.

That’s the advice of medical experts on both sides of the Atlantic. They’ve sounded a public alarm recently over reports some parents have been considering the idea as a way to expose their children to the supposedly "mild" current form of the virus, so they’ll be better protected if the bug mutates into something far deadlier this fall and winter.

Upon reading these news reports, however, it’s soon clear that nobody’s actually thrown such a "party." So far, it’s just been online chatter in forums for parents about the idea, one based on actual "chicken pox parties" that took place, based on somewhat similar logic, years ago.

Ah, well. You can’t blame experts for trying to nip such foolishness in the bud.

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