SWINE FLU: DISCUSS IT HERE

[LazyLion]

This is why I stopped taking anti-biotics all those years ago. Now my body is able to fight off all the little boogers.... Muahahahaha!

 

[km2]

I see it's now been moved up to a Level 4 warning on the WHO scale. http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html

Let's just hope our new health department has sufficient anti-flu shower heads to complement the anti-HIV ones.

 

[Sly21C]

This is why I stopped taking anti-biotics all those years ago. Now my body is able to fight off all the little boogers.... Muahahahaha!

i usually take disprin and medlemon whenever i have flu or fever, i never go to the doctor, so you don't take anything whenever you have flu, cold or fever?

 

[semaphore]

Map of the outbreak:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...39375,-110.390625&spn=15.738151,25.488281&z=5

How much of this is being sensationalised and how much of it is something we should really be cautious of? I mean first it was anthrax, then SARS now this?

Go to america or mexico and come back and let us know

Its like an american movie, everyone call Dustin Hoffman!!

 

[LazyLion]

i usually take disprin and medlemon whenever i have flu or fever, i never go to the doctor, so you don't take anything whenever you have flu, cold or fever?

I do... I just take Flusin....the little red pills every 4 hours until the symptoms go away.

 

[Vinni]

I'm pretty certain that its nature's way of saying that theres too many of us. I think the world needs to stop breeding, or at least slow down.

Definitely agree there! Bring in like an international law that only allows you to have two children per lifetime. And if your country doesnt want to follow the law they get economically sanctioned

 

[LazyLion]

Definitely agree there! Bring in like an international law that only allows you to have two children per lifetime. And if your country doesnt want to follow the law they get economically sanctioned

so when I get reincarnated, I can have two more?

 

[Sly21C]

I'm pretty certain that its nature's way of saying that theres too many of us. I think the world needs to stop breeding, or at least slow down.

Just like the dot com bubble burst, the human population will have it's own "bubble burst", and I think billions of people are gonna die because nature always corrects itself.

 

[Kim_Webchick]

This is just crazy, saw on the news last night they not even checking the people coming in from overseas

 

[Fudzy]

Why is this story a sticky? It doesn't show up in New posts.

 

[Nanfeishen]

Most of the victims dead are in the age group 18 to 40 years, makes you
think

Spanish flu of 1918, was the same:

Most of its victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or otherwise weakened patients.
The pandemic is estimated to have affected up to one billion people: half the world's population at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

 

[cybershark]

Govt response to flu 'worrying'

 

[Nanfeishen]

Rather interesting Article:

Striking parallels between the influenza of 1918 and new ’swine flu’ through a historical comparison

The fact the current ’swine flu’ has shown to be contagious is alarming. So far the virus has shown to have a 6.3% mortality rate. It may not seem like much, but please consider the following: The deadly influenza panic in 1918 had a mortality rate of under 1%.

http://www.butasforme.com/2009/04/25/a-quick-trip-through-the-history-of-pandemic-influenza/

 

[The_Pumpkin_King]

2 cases reported is SA

*mask on*

 

[blunomore]

2 cases reported is SA

*mask on*

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2508746,00.html

One in the Western Cape and one in Gauteng.

 

[Sneeky]

prays it doesnt get into the townships.

 

[antowan]

mod note: poll added

 

[Fudzy]

Anyone know what the mortality rate of swine flu is?

 

[butc8]

Do vaccinations help at all?

 

[rph72]

Egypt will be culling all their pigs. Shame poor pigs.