Flu Pandemic

[Lazarus 0]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8018356.stm

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_H1N1_flu_outbreak

[Blackas 0]

Great

[Lazarus 0]

Now in New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/world/am...ml?_r=1&hpw

 

and Kansas: http://www.arkcity.net/stories/042509/com_0007.shtml

Edited April 25, 2009 by Lazarus

[Ketsbaia 0]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/2...c-mexico-flight

 

It's here

 

:panic:

[Douggy B 0]

If you had only listened to us about the pigs.

[ChezGiven 0]

If you had only listened to us about the pigs.

Not sure these people have been infected after eating mexican bacon sandwiches.

[Kitman 2207]

Now arrived in NZ via college field trip to Mexico. Fucking students....

Edited April 26, 2009 by Kitman

[Fop 1]

If you had only listened to us about the pigs.

 

 

They've been plotting for years..... now is the time for them to unleash their vengeance....

 

[Scottish Mag 3]

Honeymoon in Mexico in 8 weeks...

[snakehips 0]

*sniffs and looks forward to going to the game tomorrow*

[Cid_MCDP 0]

In the years to come, my kids will ask me why we weren't better prepared to survive in the post-swine flu America.

 

"It was the fucking (hockey) playoffs. Whaddaya want?"

[Douggy B 0]

Really scary testament on the BBC:

I'm a specialist doctor in respiratory diseases and intensive care at the Mexican National Institute of Health. There is a severe emergency over the swine flu here. More and more patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit. Despite the heroic efforts of all staff (doctors, nurses, specialists, etc) patients continue to inevitably die. The truth is that anti-viral treatments and vaccines are not expected to have any effect, even at high doses. It is a great fear among the staff. The infection risk is very high among the doctors and health staff.

 

There is a sense of chaos in the other hospitals and we do not know what to do. Staff are starting to leave and many are opting to retire or apply for holidays. The truth is that mortality is even higher than what is being reported by the authorities, at least in the hospital where I work it. It is killing three to four patients daily, and it has been going on for more than three weeks. It is a shame and there is great fear here. Increasingly younger patients aged 20 to 30 years are dying before our helpless eyes and there is great sadness among health professionals here.

Antonio Chavez, Mexico City

[Fop 1]

Increasingly younger patients aged 20 to 30 years are dying before our helpless eyes and there is great sadness among health professionals here.

 

 

Labour had better pass some anti-terror legislation to stop that quick.

[Lazarus 0]

Increasingly younger patients aged 20 to 30 years are dying before our helpless eyes and there is great sadness among health professionals here.

 

 

Labour had better pass some anti-terror legislation to stop that quick.

 

thats whats got the cdc and the who shitting themselves as flu normally picks off the young and the old or those with weakened immune systems.

 

this varient seems to be targeting the apparantly healthy. as did the 1918 varient.

[Fop 1]

Increasingly younger patients aged 20 to 30 years are dying before our helpless eyes and there is great sadness among health professionals here.

 

 

Labour had better pass some anti-terror legislation to stop that quick.

 

thats whats got the cdc and the who shitting themselves as flu normally picks off the young and the old or those with weakened immune systems.

 

this varient seems to be targeting the apparantly healthy. as did the 1918 varient.

 

Better raise taxes too then, that should do it.

 

 

(it's a faint from the pigs, while the real threat, the chickens, prepare)

[Tom 14013]

[NJS 4411]

I've said before that while an individual person's death is always tragic, looking at the big picture the planet is overpopulated by humans. In that context a pandemic wouldn't necessarily be bad - though even 50m probably wouldn't be "enough" to make the situation viable. Losing all of the Americas would make life interesting.

[Tom 14013]

You need help

[Fop 1]

I've said before that while an individual person's death is always tragic, looking at the big picture the planet is overpopulated by humans. In that context a pandemic wouldn't necessarily be bad - though even 50m probably wouldn't be "enough" to make the situation viable. Losing all of the Americas would make life interesting.

 

Genocide is always an option™.

 

 

 

Cutting the planets population in half would solve most of the world problems, although it'll be a bitch for quite a lot of people.

[Fop 1]

I am worried about swine flu in Western countries, and the countries where they breed them or eat their meat or other products of it, but in my country as mostly are Moslems, we commonly don't breed this animal, therefore there is no worry about swine flu among the population. In wild - among mountains and through some of the deep forests, where swines hide somewhere in the daytime and attack orchards and farms at night - you may find them, but I am doubtful if they can be very effective, too.

 

taspar1360, tabriz, Iran

 

Pigs are waging guerrilla warfare too.

[Geordieboyo 0]

Honeymoon in Mexico in 8 weeks...

 

Going in two weeks.

 

Oink Oink

[Renton 22001]

Fortunately the two antiviral drugs the UK have stocked up on seem to be very effective against this strain.

[Fop 1]

Fortunately the two antiviral drugs the UK have stocked up on seem to be very effective against this strain.

 

Shh... they'll never get the tax raises and new anti-terror law through if you keep that up; loose lips cost parliamentary expenses.

[snakehips 0]

Fortunately the two antiviral drugs the UK have stocked up on seem to be very effective against this strain.

 

Aye, that's what the dude (Health Minister ??) was saying on the news last night. Apparently UK is named (by WHO) as one of the best two countries in the world equipped to deal with this problem.

 

Mind you, looking at some of the munters out yesterday, one would think it's already spreading around here! Oink.

[N174Life 0]

Don't believe the hype.