pig flu outbreak
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- 5timuli0
I predict an imminent deluge of facemasks in design, like after the 2003 SARS outbreak.
- Kiggen0
I hate the media, totally blowing this outta proportion...
- CALLES0
Quake strikes near Acapulco, Mexico
- harlequino0
Fuck me, CNET is awash with all the web apps suddenly launched to track swine flu.
- kona0
here is my brief, but thorough reenactment of the news this morning:
news: so mr. specialist, can you please give us fear opinion on fear of what will happen with this fear extremely fear fear swine flu outbreak that is fear fear fear!?!
specialist: thanks susan. in my opinion fear i see this killer virus fear spreading throughout the united fear states in 2 days, killing us all. and fear in less than a week it will be worldwide. of course i'm basing this opinion on the movie 28 days later, but fear in my fear fear fear fear.
news: ok well thank you. fear, back to you in weather.
weatherman: FEEEEEEEAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR and rain.
- what are you wearing?CALLES
- will I need an umbrella for all that fear?harlequino
- right now i'm wearing a hazmat suit. yes, yes you will need an umbrella.kona
- CALLES0
so is earth trying toshake off the mexicans?
- homeostatic0
They say there are 2000 reported hospital cases and near 200 deaths in Mexico. That's only 1/10 chance of fatality...
Oh wait, that's just as deadly as the 1918 Spanish Influenza.
They need to do MORE fear mongering with this, I think. Not because panic is good but because only preventative action will stop this from killing a whole lot of people.
The first thing they need to put strict quarantines on air traffic.
- but that would be bad for the economy!jgrillo
- My father and uncles are airline pilots. But do we want an economy or a population?homeostatic
- dibec0
Phase 4.
- GeorgesII0
wow thats confusing
- dibec0
wow. H1N1 ... herm.
Swine influenza
27 April 2009 -- The Emergency Committee, established in compliance with the International Health Regulations (2005), held its second meeting on 27 April 2009. The Committee considered available data on confirmed outbreaks of A/H1N1 swine influenza in the United States of America, Mexico, and Canada.
http://www.who.int/en/The 1918 flu pandemic (commonly referred to as the Spanish flu) was an influenza pandemic that spread to nearly every part of the world. It was caused by an unusually virulent and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa…- and that was before everyday air travel...********
- Food for thought.dibec
- and that was before everyday air travel...
- Kiggen0
To much drama queens here.
- many?version3
- Too?Rushmore
- hear?homeostatic
- What are your second and third languages again, version3?Nairn
- rosem0
I'll start to worry when I see status updates on facebook referring to people getting sick. So far it's one-in-a-million.
- dibec0
As I read more and more ... the major concern is that the flu is a blend of bird, pig and human virus. Making the virus highly adaptable and ever changing. We have not had something like this for about 40 years and the rapid "deployment" is actually scary. There is a concern it can mutate and blend with others.
I don't know. Call it fear ... but this is really interesting.
- So, can it blend?TheBIueOne
- Don't know, but that is the conern.dibec
- brains0
Come on now, let's focus on the good. All the cases outside of mexico have been recovered from. It's pretty virulent, but it seems like any case outside of mexico is only mild.
- dibec0
No doubt. I am not fearful, just interested. ;)
