H1N1 TRUTH VERSUS LIES

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The Question As the H1N1 virus has been going around

causing fear around everybody we know, the simple question is “ What facts do we need to know about H1N1”?

So through an internet search we will find out.

Google I went to Google and typed “h1n1” and I

got a lot of different pop ups so I went with the first one. http://oust.com/H1N1-Fact-Sheet.aspx?sid=SEM_Google&cid=OustH1N1&mkwid=WqTkKcgo -------- This is the homepage to Oust, the air freshening product.

www.Flu.gov was the next one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1 -> This one is a Wikipedia page

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/h1n1fluswineflu.html --> This one is to Mediline Plus

The verdict Good Sites – Flu.gov, Mediline plus

Bad- Wikipedia, Oust

Why the verdict? The first two sites provided good url’s in

that they ended in “gov”. The flu website was an official page of the Department of Human Resources. This was the same for Mediline as I saw in their about Us.

The bad ones started with wikipedia which says that anyone can edit this material, including me so that ruled out relaibility. The second one cited its sources but the fact that it was a brand name company made me wary.