Mexican Flu

The media likes to create mass hysteria. I'm not buying into it until I'm dying on the hospital bed, or rather in the street because I don't have insurance....

 

Oh god.

 

No worries. They're not showing any signs of fever or anything. Maybe it takes a while to develop though. I'll be keeping a watch on myself

 

No outbreaks in the Yucatan peninsula as of yet... everything seems pretty much under control though.

 

Two provinces have swine flu cases: sources



The Canadian Press
April 26, 2009 at 11:52 AM EDT

TORONTO — Sources say Canada's first cases of swine flu have come to light, at different ends of the country.

They say Nova Scotia and British Columbia have both discovered cases of people infected with unidentifiable influenza A viruses, which are being tested at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.

Because swine flu is so new, most laboratories don't have tests to identify them, and they show up as untypeable influenza A when tests are run.
Sources say Nova Scotia has three cases, in people with a travel link to Mexico. Officials in the province have called a press conference for this afternoon

Sources say British Columbia has found a pair of cases but it is not yet clear if they have a link to Mexico.
No information is available on the health of the cases.
Federal authorities will hold a news conference later this afternoon.
More to come

 

like someone already said, bird flu, pig flu, human flu...it's all the same - it's influenza virus. but if this pig one transfers human to human, that's what makes it pandemic. so this could be a lot worse than the bird flu scare. i wrote my senior undergrad paper on bird flu.

sweet, i'm goin on a mexican cruise in july

 

inbetween the civil (drug) war and the swine flu your sure to have a blast...

 

I'm not worried, the whole part about "everybody with reasonably good healthcare seems to be doing fine and recovering well" kind of put me at ease. Media = hystaria, always remember that...

 

mmmks thanks...

:cheers2:..

 

I'm not worried.
Media likes to create panic
Yes, we had extremely deadly pandemics, 3 major influenza one's in the past 100 years, but health care is better now, and again, media likes to make everyone panic.

 

I get the feeling this is much worse and with the potential for being much bigger. It wouldn't take much to make the governments shut down all travel, and trade too I suppose, for a while. I wonder what that would do to our already shitty government?

Helly

 

its fucking bullshit to keep people from going to Mexico cause of the drug gangs, Im sick as hell and didnt get quarantined ..

 

Why do the shittiest things happen during the nice seasons?:toetap05:
My friend's roommate just went to Mexico a few days ago....oh nos California

mmm they do

 

As I'm flipping through the channels, EVERY new station is talking about it -_-

 

yeah I'm pretty sick of hearing about it at this point.

 

The more it spreads-the more it has a chance of evolving into something more dangerous. Right now it doesn't seem real bad if you are healthy and get care. Just under a hundred have died in Mexico-I didn't hear exactly how many today.

Viruses are tricky things-the more people that get it-the more it can evolve into something more dangerous. The people infected now who get better are safest. If an older or sick person in America get this-it could evolve real quick-and chances are a few older or sicker people will die in America. Get ready for the reports then.

But you can see how quickly it is spreading. It's a very small world now. If it gets stronger it could spread real quickly. I know that Texas has a just got a delivery of 37,500 doses of Tamiflu (I think Rumsfeld is a big investor)-but it does work. But that's
not much if this gets bad.

 

Hundreds of school kids in NYC are suspected to have it along with 4 people in Connecticut, this is how quick it's spreading, it's already made it to over a dozen countries, even island ones like New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Britain. And it's topping 2,000 dead in Mexico that they know of of about 2,500 cases, which means so far it has a mortality rate of almost 2%, compared to the normal .1% the flu normally has

 

cannabis soul was ahead of the curve with the title of this thread..lol


U.S. officials want 'swine' out of flu name

 

Well for name lulz value, the irony in the fact if this does become a global pandemic there's the 1918 one which is called the Spanish flu and now we can have it's sister, the Mexican flu

 

I hadn't even heard about it until yesterday.