Every time you turn on the news, you can't seem to escape from the CDC's ominous H1N1 statistics claiming that …

1. Millions of Americans have been infected with the swine flu …
2. 20,000 people in the U.S. have been hospitalized – and more than 1,000 people in the U.S. have died, including nearly 100 children, and …
3. The virus continues to spread like wildfire, with 46 states showing widespread activity.

Maybe President Obama was right – maybe we really do have a national emergency on our hands.

Not so fast …

Think you've had the swine flu?  Think again!

After three months of intensive investigation, CBS News recently dropped a media bombshell …

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (the CDC) and our U.S. government have been spreading misleading statistics on the H1N1 "epidemic."

The truth is … if you've been diagnosed with "probable" or "presumed" H1N1 or "swine flu" in recent months, chances are you didn't really have it.

In fact, you might not have had the flu at all!

Let me explain …

In July 2009, the CDC told the states to stop individual testing and counting for the swine flu.  Why?  It assumed that there already was an epidemic.  Testing people would just be a waste of time and money.

So that means every person who went to their doctor with flu-like symptoms since late July was assumed to have H1N1 – because there is an epidemic, you know.

Things got interesting when CBS investigative reporters requested to see the state-by-state numbers compiled by the CDC before the testing was stopped.  To say the least, the CDC was very reluctant to cooperate.

While waiting for the CDC to provide the data – which it eventually did after several months of prodding - CBS asked all 50 states for their statistics on state lab-confirmed cases of H1N1 prior to the halt of individual testing and counting in July.

And they were blown away by what they discovered …

A whopping 83% to 98% of supposed swine flu cases were NOT H1N1 – or even influenza – at all!

CBS News found that even though the CDC claims on its website that most flu is the 2009 H1N1 flu …

"The vast majority of cases were negative for H1N1 as well as seasonal flu, despite the fact that many states were specifically testing patients deemed to be most likely to have H1N1 flu, based on symptoms and risk factors, such as travel to Mexico."

Here's a small sampling of the results …

Not only are most cases of suspicious flu-like illnesses NOT H1N1 – but they're not even the flu at all!  They're more likely some type of cold or upper respiratory infection.

So what about the 20,000 Americans supposedly hospitalized with the swine flu - and the 1,000 who allegedly died?

As of August 30, 2009, the CDC implemented a new system to track influenza-associated hospitalizations and deaths.  The states are asked to report to the CDC all hospitalizations and deaths (either confirmed or suspected) resulting from ALL types of influenza – not just the H1N1 virus. 

In other words, the CDC wants to know about everyone who has been hospitalized or died as the result of a flu-like illness.

It admits on its website that this may cause an overestimate of the actual number of flu-related hospitalizations and deaths, but the CDC "believes influenza and pneumonia syndromic reports are likely to be a more sensitive measure of flu-associated hospitalizations and deaths than laboratory-confirmed reports during this pandemic."

So the millions of Americans the CDC claims have been infected – and the 1,000 who allegedly have died – were not ALL victims of the swine flu.

The government and the media have taken the CDC's bloated
H1N1 numbers and run with them …

The question is … why would our government and the CDC tell us the swine flu is five times worse than it really is?

And – even more bizarre - why would the President declare a national public health emergency because of a mild strain of influenza?

Could their motivation be as simple as wanting to scare the American public into getting their seasonal and swine flu shots?  After all, the pharmaceutical companies – who heavily influence our government – stand to make billions of dollars on vaccine sales.

Or is there something even deeper and darker at work here?  Use the comment box below to let us know what you think.