Swedish gov. now call it "the new flu".

No kiddin'...

It least it rhymes :yeah:

I'm holding out for the new flu review :woot:

I thought they said that we didn't have to worry about pigs, but now the pigs have to worry about man.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-05-02-canada_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno

here in Mexico its also kinda going down now, last week everyone was gong nuts over it, face masks all over, now iv only seen 2 today.

its a MASSIVE overreaction by the media, nothings happened here at all...

probably just another cover story for something bigger...:stare:

Why shouldent pigs be worried about man? I think its safe to say that mankind has been there number one killer :rotfl:oh and eater. :rock:

Who knew about the new flu, did you?
:D

So now we should soon see the financial crisis taking centre stage in the media again :hmmm:

Wuz wondering....I heard the AIDS came from humans and chimps doin the bone dance. Could the swine flu be a similar deal? Why is there no disease from all the farmers that do the hokey pokey with sheep???:woot:

I've heard that HIV/AIDS was developed by US scientists to wipe out Africans.

Yes! I think the Bush's were behind this. Thank God for Rosie O' Donnell and her wisdom of the matter...

You know him using his weather satellite to make a hurricane hit New Orleans is further proof that he and his ilk don't like anyone who isnt white.

The theory that HIV/AIDS might be at least in part a US plan to attack blacks has neven been disproven. Look at US politics in Africa during the cold war and even before, it would fit right in line with the rest of their policies.

OTH....

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

The facts are that HIV is amazingly closely related to SIV - its Simbian (aka primate) varient. The base mutations between the two are minimal.

Considering that the earliest cases of immunodeficiency diseases that would today be looked at as possible AIDS cases date back to around 1917 in the Congonese region, the fact that SIV was known even then, and that simple blood contact could transmit the virus, the commonly accepted scientific thought of a hunter or butcher getting infected by either trying to trap or carve up an infected primate is reasonable.

Now - your "well it hasn't been DISPROVEN".... ok. Well guess what, lots of things haven't been "DISPROVEN". Like the world is flat. Pictures from outer space? Faked. Moon landing? Done in Hollywood. Kennedy isn't really dead because I personally didn't feel for a lack of pulse.

So - when a "claim" is thrown out that you have never heard before feeds some preconcieved notion you may have - research it. The facts that there is a reasonable, accepted answer out there - along with the facts that there would not be a reason for the US government to try and kill blacks (since HIV is documented way before the equal rights struggles), means you can be gullible and look for the bad guys everywhere that are out to get you, or accept that life is a little more rational.

And remember - its not a question of if your paranoid... its a question of are you paranoid ENOUGH?

The title of the thread is 'Swine Flu Update', so here is one:

The number of H1N1 cases worldwide now stands at 787, with two additional deaths reported in Mexico. As of today, Mexico has the largest number of confirmed cases with 506, followed by the United States at 160. 19 people in Mexico and a Mexican baby who travelled to the United States have died from the virus, bringing the total number of deaths to 20.

Therefore, as some of us have been stating from very early on, the H1N1 virus is no more dangerous than the seasonal flu virus that has killed 16,000 people in the US so far this year, and which will have killed about 36,000 by the end of the year.

You're going to see confirmed cases, those who are not old and with pre existing chronic illnesses, recover from H1N1 with conventional flu treatment.