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Swine Flu (H1N1) Alert.........not

This is a control issue. The scientists are all confused, so now its an epidemic/pandemic. This is the problem with science, when people's livelyhood depends on someone else's gravitas anything is possible for science.

Parts of Britain "near an H1N1 epidemic"; 14 dead

All 14 who have died had underlying health issues and it was not clear in how many cases the patients had died as a direct result of the virus, known as swine flu.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...rpc=22&sp=true

Thats like our federal health minister.

"as of 1 o'clock, 1600 austalians are suffereing from swine flu".

No, they're not. 1600 Australians have been diagnosed over the past 3 months as having contracted swine flu, most are now recovered.

Iits all about fear and control.

Epidemic and pandemic are technical terms used by science and the medical profession to mean specific things, and they are not related to "how scared you should be". That is the business of the media, and it is the business of fools to get into high moral dudgeon over it.

Epidemic is in contrast with endemic, for example

Endemic is when a disease is stable in a population. It doesn't matter whether the incidence is rare, such as bubonic plague today, or common, such as malaria, if the incidence isn't changing in a population over time, it is endemic.

An epidemic is when the incidence is increasing sharply over time. It is irrelevant whether there is still overall a low incidence or high incidence, if it is increasing sharply it is an epidemic. It is also irrelevant how dangerous the disease is. It can be totally lethal or have absolutely no lethality, it is just a description of it's growth rate. Since there were no cases of Swine flu two years ago and now the UK has over a thousand cases, it is an epidemic.

A Pandemic is an epidemic that is global scope, or at least very widespread. Since Swine Flu incidence is reported to be growing in UK, USA, Japan and others, it can be said to not be a localised epidemic, and so a pandemic.

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Originally Posted by joegrundman (Post 1131684)

Wow! You should be our medical advisor sinse the press does such a poor job of reporting. Thank you for the explaination.

Swine flu still needs to be taken seriously in spite of media shock stories. Swine flu has the same demographic as the 1918 flu, in that it has killed people in their 20-40's instead of the young and old, which is opposite to the strains we deal with usually. The 1918 flu first appeared in the spring and didn't amount to too much, then after having spread around the world and mutating, it came back in the fall and killed millions. It takes six to eight months to develop a flu vaccine, so in the fall the vaccine that's being made now might well be ineffective. The good news is we know a lot more about how flu viruses spread and can take better precautions. This is not alarmist, just good preparation. Hospitals and other emergency preparedness centers are stockpiling Theraflu as a precaution if the vaccine is useless. It will most likely not become as serious as 1918, but we can't act as if it won't.

Buddahaid

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Originally Posted by Buddahaid (Post 1131701)

Swine flu still needs to be taken seriously

http://learnabit.homeserver.com/lab/a1819.jpg

You know, if we destroy the human race then we won't have to worry about swine flu. :arrgh!:

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Originally Posted by Rilder (Post 1131734)

You know, if we destroy the human race then we won't have to worry about swine flu. :arrgh!:

Or you could all the swine but who could live without bacon? :rotfl:

About 21% of the world apparently.