Swine Flu

[novakru]

When over 100,000 people die from it, I'll take it seriously.

Oh hell, who am I kidding?
Too many damn people anyway.
I say, good riddance.

[sfear]

Originally Posted by scouse mac

Swine flu is no new thing but this is a new (and nastier) strain which has jumped species to become infectious to humans (or something, not really paying too much attention to it).

Apparently, its perfectly treatable which current flu medication

But that's the thing. Jumping to other species is new now, so new we don't even have a vaccine for it. But I still remember Ford pushing for swine flu shots. Where was the vaccine coming from it the swine flu wasn't jumping species yet?

[newb]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

fuck mexico

a poor ass country that relies on tourism to survive (along with cheap labour) and they dont give a shit what happens to the tourists.

now a diseas breaks out down there - and they blame the canadian tourists.


the country is like a stupid red neck retarted child that wont accept responsibility for anything.

i hope canadians finally boycot that shit hole.

[bloody_ribcut]

man, the first death in the u.s. was a toddler monday in houston. the only thing im afraid of is for my family to get sick at school.

[_____V_____]

WEDNESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) -- A 23-month-old child in Texas has become the first U.S. fatality in the spreading swine flu outbreak, federal health officials said Wednesday morning.

Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, confirmed the death. No other details on the case were immediately available, according to network news reports.

During a press briefing Tuesday, Besser had said that the more than 60 cases of infection found in the United States so far continued to be mild, but more severe cases were expected, and "as we move forward, I fully expect we will see deaths."

The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States continued to climb Tuesday, to 64, with all the bulk of the new cases coming from a New York City high school that had previously reported 18 cases of the infectious disease, Besser said.

"There are 64 confirmed cases in the United States in five states," Besser said during the Tuesday afternoon teleconference. "Forty-five in New York, one in Ohio, two in Kansas, six in Texas and 10 in California."

Besser said the incubation period for the U.S. cases is two to seven days, which, he said, "is typical for what you see with an influenza virus."

The majority of new cases in New York continued to come at St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens. Some students who have come down with the infection had been to Mexico -- believed to be the source of the outbreak -- during a spring break trip to Cancun, the Associated Press reported.

As with the previously tested strains of the never-before-seen swine flu virus, new testing found that the pathogen remains susceptible to the two common antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, according to an April 28 dispatch from the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The new flu strain is a combination of pig, bird and human viruses, prompting worries from health officials that humans may have no natural immunity to the virus.

Meanwhile, the AP reported Tuesday that the epidemic had crossed new borders, with the first cases confirmed in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. Canada, Austria, New Zealand, Israel, Spain, Britain and Germany also have reported cases of swine flu sickness.

Deaths reported so far have been limited to Mexico, and now the U.S.

[trx1]

See, those fucking pigs will try and control us one way or another! fuck em, kill em all!

[Roderick Usher]

I still have the SARS in my system... no room for the pig-puke

[bloody_ribcut]

Originally Posted by trx1

See, those fucking pigs will try and control us one way or another! fuck em, kill em all!

there calling it n1h1 or something like that now to protect the pigs integrity.

[bloody_ribcut]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASibLqwVbsk

[crazy raplh]

its intresting i think just keep on your toes and wash your hands alot.