Pandemic Mexican Flu

[Xu Zhu]

Yeah, level 6 it already is, a real PANDEMIC or PANDEMIE or whatever you want to call it has been announced by the WHO.

Do you have relatives with this desease or are you sick yourself? No problem, as long as you are important enough to not be missed. Right?
But really, there's plenty of vaccins for all of us, though I highly doubt the danger of this flu. Are people overreacting or are I too dumb to realize the threat here?

Oh yeah, for those interested:


DeathwatchInfectiions in NL: 126
Contaminated in NL: 55
Deaths: 0

[Ba Zeng]

Nothing to worry about,

But it'll come back next winter and kill 50 Million people.

[Battle Mod]

This is about as bad as SARS.

Which is to say, it's nothing to worry about unless you're a Mexican pig owner. I guess Shawn might have to worry about this. That's about it though.

[Da Qiao (saph)]

is this about that swine flu? if so it doesnt come from pigs..........

[allieddolphin]

Yeah it comes from Nachos

[Cao Pi]

Jun 30, 2009 12:37:03 GMT -5 Da Qiao (saph) said:

is this about that swine flu? if so it doesnt come from pigs..........

yes it does. swine flu is a mutated form of the H1N1 virus, it doesn't have a vaccine at the moment, although a lot of the seasonal flu drugs seem to beat it up pretty well. But it does originate from pigs, or at least thats what doctors are saying, but maybe they're wrong. It's not passed by pigs, it isn't like the plague, its human interaction that is spreading it, but it's original infection is a transmission between an infected pig and a human being.

As for is it a pandemic, then no - it isn't strong enough, nor is it killing enough for me ever to consider it a pandemic. The last pandemic was in the early 1990's and that killed several million.

[Sima Yi]

Dude this isn't bad whatsoever, like around e.g. 100 people die out of a population of about 50 million. You have a more chance of winning the lottery than catching swine flu.

[Cao Pi]

Agreed, the world ha around 6 billion people on it. I highly doubt some silly virus is going to wipe us all out, however - a part of me wants it to kill at least 2 billion xD

[Sima Yi]

Would be kooler if you didn't die but you went aggressive and shit. Like a zombie/infected type thing. Alot scarier then.

[Battle Mod]

Or if it made you turn into a fucking pig.

Or one of those moblin things from Zelda. Like part pig, part goblin.

[Da Qiao (saph)]

yuo cant catch it from pigs...........thats exactly what the NEWS said

[Cao Pi]

It is genetically different from the fully human H1N1 seasonal influenza virus that has been circulating globally for the past few years. It contains DNA that is typical to avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses.

According to researchers Swine Flu has been around for a long time, but because it's a virus (as you should know) it mutated and chanes all the time. The virus itself is linked to the flu that pigs have, hence its name. But it also contains parts of a seasonal H1N1 virus.

You really shouldn't believe everything the news says, even if the virus isn't spread from the pig itself it doesn't mean the virus isn't related to it. besides, there have been many cases in the past where people have gotten swine flu, and those people work closely to pigs. Yeah it shouldn't spread, but as it's been stated a million times - this swine flu is different, which is why they're estimating that by the end of next month over 10,000 people will catch it every single day.

The media lie and exaggerate. God people follow the news far too much >.> it's so full of crap half of the time lol.

[Da Qiao (saph)]

swine flu....is supposedly derived off of......the black plague

[Cao Pi]

You're a moron. Do you know that.

As for the Black Plague, yeah - sure, a seasonal virus that is a muattion of various other forms of the H1N1 virus is now magically linked to a disease inflicted upon the fleas of black rats. God you're so incredidly clever...>.>

[Da Qiao (saph)]

I AM NOT XD ok scientist told ppl that OMFG