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The World Health Organization says the virus has infected 13,398 people and caused 95 deaths. The WHO has stated that countries should begin preparing for a possible pandemic and this week vaccine manufacturers for the United States began receiving sample viruses from which to make a swine flu vaccine.

The Myths:

1. Swine flu is more benign than seasonal flu.
According to the WHO, 95 people worldwide have died of confirmed cases of swine flu.

However, seasonal flu claimed an average of 36,000 lives annually in the 1990s, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

While many believe that swine flu is waning and these numbers may lead people to believe that swine flu is not as bad as seasonal flu, the situation can be deceiving.

2. You can get swine flu from eating or handling pork.

To date, no evidence has been found to link eating or handling pork to contracting swine flu.

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