**WHEN YOU START HEARING ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW BEING SICK & HOSPITALZED FOR FLUE LIKE SYMPTOMS.......THAT SCARY!!!!!**

Just noticed some grammar and spelling issues in my post, I did not check it before I posted it.

Sorry :-(

I haven't seen anyone with the flu. It's cancer that concerns me. In the past 10 months, I've known 9 people with cancer. Only 3 are still alive and one of those 3 is close to death. My mother-in-law passed away from cancer last December. Three people who attended her funeral have since been diagnosed with cancer. Two have already passed and one isn't expected to live much longer. Another person was diagnosed with cancer 3 weeks ago and passed away last Friday.

I've never known so many people that have cancer. The flu epidemic doesn't concern me nearly as much...not when people around me are dropping like flies from cancer..not the flu!

1st I would like to send my condolences to you and your family. I can totally understand where that would be a major concern and not the flu!

I think that word of mouth is still one of the best ways of communication especially when dealing with sickness on a wide world level or even as small as a family or community level.

So when I heard this news it sort of hit home that this thing may be more then what I previously thought.

Blessings to you and your family!

I think that would be one of the reasons I like GLP or any sort of network where people talk to one another about situations that are going on in their neck of the woods.

There is always a lot of news floating around on forums!

-Blessings

true!

I'm glad I don't know anyone.

Bird flu? Swine flu? That's common yo!