H1N1 Mutation - 'Swine Flu'

[Oberon]

Quite surprised no-one has started a thread on this yet...come on people, this is quite obviously Obamas fault! :O:

In all seriousness, this looks like it has the potential to be a nasty bugger, let's just hope and pray that it doesn't fulfil its potential.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8019100.stm

[Jimbuna]

Could soon be categorised as the first pandemic since the 1968-69 Hong Kong flu :hmmm:

[CaptainHaplo]

Not his fault at all. I don't much like him, but I am not going to reach to blame things on him (as some liberals did with Bush - example being his hurricane machine / weather control satellite). He (and Congress - they share the blamd) is responsible for enough things I don't agree.

Now - to the topic - this is likely going to be similiar to the Chinese outbreak of whatever the heck it was (I can't remember the name) where everyone flying ended up coughing their guts up and about half died.

[Jimbuna]

Now - to the topic - this is likely going to be similiar to the Chinese outbreak of whatever the heck it was (I can't remember the name) where everyone flying ended up coughing their guts up and about half died.


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Could soon be categorised as the first pandemic since the 1968-69 Hong Kong flu :hmmm:

[Frame57]

The only way to build your resistance to the swine flu is to ingest massive quantities of bacon for the next 30 days.:yep:

[A Very Super Market]

Raw bacon too. With a nice side-dish of chemotherapy, and tapeworms.

[Etienne]

Every year or so, during the slow news period, we get a fricking epidemic. What was it last year, the chicken flu? SARS?

I'll get worried when it starts being, you know, a problem.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Raw bacon too. With a nice side-dish of chemotherapy, and tapeworms.

I wasnt aware that you have had dinner at my house :hmmm:

[A Very Super Market]

I wasn't aware I live in Welshland! Good lord, I'm behind!

[Aramike]

Not his fault at all. I don't much like him, but I am not going to reach to blame things on him (as some liberals did with Bush - example being his hurricane machine / weather control satellite). He (and Congress - they share the blamd) is responsible for enough things I don't agree.

Now - to the topic - this is likely going to be similiar to the Chinese outbreak of whatever the heck it was (I can't remember the name) where everyone flying ended up coughing their guts up and about half died.Heh, if it doesn't turn into a pandemic, I'm sure Obama will be praised for saving all of us. :know:

[FIREWALL]

I'm watching the 10:00pm news that states it's ground zero in Mexico for this flu.

Seems it started there. Mexico City for all intents and purposes is deserted tonite.

[I-25]

it may be a joke for all of you guys but i live smack on the border in mexico (tecate baja california) south east of san diego :down:

11 reported cases in the vicinity already (on US side)

but for some reason i feel safer on the mexican side

id better pack my bags and go to denmark and wait it out and go to the subsim meet while im at it:yep:

[FIREWALL]

No jokeing here. These killer flu's can be deadly to kids , seniors and people with respiratory problems or weak immune systems.

[I-25]

Seems it started there. Mexico City for all intents and purposes is deserted tonite.


sure is iv got a friend over there and says that its like a warzone, everything is closed, schools suspended, no one on the streets.:down:

[FIREWALL]

No jokeing here. These killer flu's can be deadly to kids , seniors and people with respiratory problems or weak immune systems.


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[kiwi_2005]

WTH i heard on the news tonight that Australia have a vacine ready available if it gets out of hand, yet in NZ we are in the process of making one which will take a few months! :haha: We fail.

[Rilder]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd109/andrea_2nd/madagascar.jpg

(You really have to had played Pandemic 2 to get this)

[Skybird]

You want globalisation and profane air trafficking around the planet - you got it. I think I fill my bunker with corn and water and disappear from the surface for some time. :D

I hope this internet wire is sterile? Can digital virusses jump onto humans, too? Nanites, maybe? Maybe I need starting to save for a Moon Ressort. Hope there are no virusses surf-riding radio-waves.

[SteamWake]

Was playing a little jumpgate lastnight.

One of the guys lives in texas quite near the border.

Now maybe he was being an alarmist but he was saying that the incident rate / fatility rate were much higher than what is being reported in the media. He went on to say that things are much more serious than we are aware of.

Now I hear that the US is posted 'warnings' about travel into mexico. Not quite a ban.... yet. But outright 'closing' of the border is the next step.

All I know is I'm going to be alot more careful about shaking hands, washing hands, and using sanitizer... you know just to make myself feel 'safer'.

[Jimbuna]

http://home.att.net/~alanmania65/onoz_omg2.gif
The UK is an island....repel all boarders http://www.clubpenguinfansite.com/forums/images/smilies/Pirate/111.gif

[FIREWALL]

Is this the Swine that's causeing ALL this sickness....

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/419/58716940.png

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[SteamWake]

http://home.att.net/~alanmania65/onoz_omg2.gif
The UK is an island....repel all boarders http://www.clubpenguinfansite.com/forums/images/smilies/Pirate/111.gif

Too late, in this age of "profane air traficking" there are already 'suspected' cases reported abroad.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97QTJMG0&show_article=1

[I-25]

so far outbreaks have been confirmed in US, Mex, Canada, Uk and Spain with probable cases in 12 other countrys.:down:

school's been canceled in all mexico till farther notice.

on the plus side no outbreaks have been reported in my state, but im pretty sure that might not last to long.....

EDIT: wikipedia is telling me theres 2 deaths in my state already:o
who to trust... wiki or local news..

[OneToughHerring]

Too late, in this age of "profane air traficking" there are already 'suspected' cases reported abroad.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97QTJMG0&show_article=1

Two confirmed as genuine I think.

A nice game to play in these times. ;)

http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html

[SteamWake]

I just heard on one those crazy right wing radio stations (Glenn Beck) that Obama had met a man in Mexico, shook his hand. The man died the next day from swine flue.

That would creep me out.

[Jimbuna]

I just heard on one those crazy right wing radio stations (Glenn Beck) that Obama had met a man in Mexico, shook his hand. The man died the next day from swine flue.

That would creep me out.

Taking into account your description of the source...I wonder how reliable that source might be :hmmm:

[SteamWake]

Taking into account your description of the source...I wonder how reliable that source might be :hmmm:

Ill have to agree somewhat but it looks like there may be more to the story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1173672/Obamas-swine-flu-scare-shaking-hands-archaeologist-died-24-hours-later.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2238769/posts

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/mexican-man-who-greeted-obama-at-museum.html

http://www.rense.com/general85/ob1.htm

Granted some of those are blog spots but there are quite a few hits on the topic.

[Jimbuna]

Ill have to agree somewhat but it looks like there may be more to the story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1173672/Obamas-swine-flu-scare-shaking-hands-archaeologist-died-24-hours-later.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2238769/posts

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/mexican-man-who-greeted-obama-at-museum.html

http://www.rense.com/general85/ob1.htm

Granted some of those are blog spots but there are quite a few hits on the topic.

We'll have to look carefully to see how Obama looks in his next public appearance.

Any coughing and spluttering or feverish looks and.....the rest could be history :o

:DL

[Zachstar]

Growing rapidly over 100 suspected dead from it so far and 40 cases in the US.

You dont have to board up your house but do be careful as always.

Wash your hands often! (Not every 5 mins!)

[Digital_Trucker]

I knew there was a reason for being anti-social. Now I have an excuse:D

[clive bradbury]

Finally, an excuse for not being fit and eating and drinking sensibly. This strain does not kill the 'usual' targets, but seems to kill fit healthy people with robust immune systems which overreact to the virus. I'm off to drink beer and eat lard.

[SteamWake]

I havent heard of any confirmed deaths in the US as yet.

Over 100 in mexico.

Maybe its all those big mac's. :rotfl:

[FIREWALL]

Finally, an excuse for not being fit and eating and drinking sensibly. This strain does not kill the 'usual' targets, but seems to kill fit healthy people with robust immune systems which overreact to the virus. I'm off to drink beer and eat lard.


That's my daily diet. :haha: I always knew I was doing something right.

[Iceman]

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The UK is an island....repel all boarders http://www.clubpenguinfansite.com/forums/images/smilies/Pirate/111.gif

LOL...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::arrgh!:

[FIREWALL]

Is this the Swine that's causeing ALL this sickness....

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/419/58716940.png

bump :haha: This says it all

[Kapitan_Phillips]

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[A Very Super Market]

RAwrrrgf, Ohggunmppfg. ARggdhhhtdd.

Say, any of you play Left 4 Dead?

[SUBMAN1]

Oh no! OMG! 100 people died? Big whoop!

In the US, every single year, 36,000 people die on average from the flu. THat is about 100 people per day - in the United States no less! And this swine thing takes how long to kill 100 people worldwide?

Yawn.

-S

[Rilder]

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.639375,-110.390625&spn=15.738151,25.488281&z=5

Shows current Swine Flu reports.

[rubenandthejets]

Put a swag of cash on a huge wave of reported cases in Japan in a week or two when everyone comes home from their overseas "Golden Week" holidays.

Seriously, the next swine flu hotspot will be Japan.

At least the face masks aren't in short supply here.....

[Jimbuna]

A few JOKES on the subject matter.

So if your feeling particularly PC today or think you may have gotten out of the wrong side of the bed this morning......no need to take things out of context and make adverse comments. Thank you.

Apparently the symptoms of swine flu are; sweating, excessive body odour and laziness.

No wonder it went unnoticed for so long in Mexico.

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I'm sweating like a pig today.....oh hell....

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Scare the **** out of your local town by going into the supermarket, picking up a packet of bacon then fall of the floor in fits of sneezes squeeling like a pig.

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i'm a bit worried today.
i went out for a meal in a Tex Mex restaurant last night and made a right pig of myself.

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So the Health Secretary says, "With Swine flu, we have enough drugs to treat 33 million patients"

So when the Muslims, Polish and other immigrants get their's.... us real Brits are well and truely knackered!

[Stealth Hunter]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd109/andrea_2nd/madagascar.jpg

(You really have to had played Pandemic 2 to get this)

I lol'd so damn hard.:har:

You've got a point, too. It was nearly impossible to beat that game, because you'd always get one country that panicked when all your disease consisted of was a sneezing symptom or a sweating symptom..

[Rhodes]

I lol'd so damn hard.:har:

You've got a point, too. It was nearly impossible to beat that game, because you'd always get one country that panicked when all your disease consisted of was a sneezing symptom or a sweating symptom..

Not at all! The trick is low visability and infect all and then make the disease lethal! Bacteria is the most difficult for me! With virus I manage to wipe out free areas and with parasite I infected the all world,but only a few deaths!!! Oh and madagascar still manages to get away...

[clive bradbury]

Annual deaths in the UK from influenza c. 1,200. Used to be around 20,000 in the early 1990s, but a massive free flu vaccination program since then has led to the massive cut in deaths.

Nice to know that the NHS has 33 million flu vaccinations available to counter the Mexican version, which is rapidly developing into one of the world's least dangerous versions of the flu.