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Monkeypox!

If a repeat of the Spanish Flu is inevitable I wish it would have been in the form of Monkeypox.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

what tha hell..

 

[NeoUltima]

what tha hell..

Bird flu can't be passed on to humans directly. Pigs can serve as a vector.

 

[Foil]

I await the attack of the Africanized Sars-Swine Bees on Y3K. Shit, we're fucked.

 

[Erebus]

Are they working together?

 

[Majmun]

Really? I'm betting on war and famine.

Well, that's how I imagine our current level of civilization coming to an end. I know that it will happen eventually, but I can't even imagine humans going extinct.

People can control a war but we can't control nature.

I'm not expecting a "The Happening" scenario, but it's just that a virus can enter a human body without us knowing it's there. We're all potential carriers.

Maybe a virus has already reached us and it's mutating day by day, waiting until it can strike and kill us.

I don't plan to!

Spoiler

I'm already in Europe

:lol

Fuck, I'm moving to Antarctica.

 

[Vormund]

Ahahah I already have the flu and I feel shithouse :lol

T_T

 

[titiklabingapat]

Wait why is there bird and human genes in it? Anyone can explain if that is normal?

A LOT of people I work with have been sneezing all the time in the past few weeks.

It said in the article that pigs can get sick with avian and human flu mutations.

 

[Phobophile]

A LOT of people I work with have been sneezing all the time in the past few weeks.

People sneezing during allergy season? No way.

 

[Ether_Snake]

People sneezing during allergy season? No way.

But it could make things worst, making it easier to spread.

 

[Mkliner]

Fuck, I'm moving to Antarctica.

Watch out for penguin fever man.

 

[Diablos]

I'm not worried. Nothing will happen. They try to scare us with a new threat every other year. Before swine flu, it was avian flu. Before that, it was West Nile Virus.

Well, one must figure that eventually one of these threats will indeed prove to be extremely dangerous in the long-term.

 

[Norml]

Wow, this is crazy. I just saw on CNN and they said 70 kids in NY got sick and are being tested for it.

 

[Scrow]

i really wish i wasn't reading The Stand right now....

 

[PhoenixDark]

Time to convert to Islam. Or Judaism

 

[Cloudy]

The anti-immigrant groups will LOVE this :lol

 

[Phobophile]

Time to convert to Islam. Or Judaism

I didn't know Muslims and Jews didn't have to breathe.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Wow, this is crazy. I just saw on CNN and they said 70 kids in NY got sick and are being tested for it.

Damnit, this stuff is not supposed to be happening so close to me! Why us?:|

 

[BlueTsunami]

i really wish i wasn't reading The Stand right now....

:lol

Captain Trips

Fortunately seven cases in the US that were treated have recovered. Scary that a new pandemic could be just around the corner though...

 

[Kuramu]

Everyone in my office (North central Jersey, 25 minutes west of NYC) has been getting some really terrible flu. I've never heard such bad flu stories before. I've been really careful to wash my hands after touching anything. I wonder if...

 

[Suikoguy]

We really don't need this as a country right now

 

[BlueTsunami]

Everyone in my office (North central Jersey, 25 minutes west of NYC) has been getting some really terrible flu. I've never heard such bad flu stories before. I've been really careful to wash my hands after touching anything. I wonder if...

I've personally been in and out of a funk for a good two months now. I think it may be partly due to allergies? But I've never been affected by allergy season throughout my life.

 

[TaeOH]

I'm not worried. Nothing will happen. They try to scare us with a new threat every other year. Before swine flu, it was avian flu. Before that, it was West Nile Virus.

They have just been setting us up for when they needed to decrease the population - so no one will be the wiser.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Probably just the usual flu. I haven't gotten any in a year, thank god, I feel miserable when I have the flu.

 

[Mareg]

Oh boy, people are going down left and right where I work.
People that usually never miss job for sickness are calling in sick. Today, the coworker next desk to mine complained to having stomach aches. My throat was a bit sore. This better not be it cause its the fastest pandemic I've ever heard about.

 

[Ripclawe]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it was too late to contain the swine flu outbreak in the United States.

CDC acting director Dr. Richard Besser told reporters in a telephone briefing it was likely too late to try to contain the outbreak, by vaccinating, treating or isolating people.

"There are things that we see that suggest that containment is not very likely," he said.

PANIC!!!!

 

[speculawyer]

Evolution is smarter than you.

 

[teh_pwn]

I just heard about it on the news. I am about to get real sanitary.

I think you're better off getting enough sleep, exercising, and eating healthy. Unless this thing thrives on strong immune systems like some flu varieties do.

 

[kaskade]

I have been sick for a few weeks and I just recently got better. I hope that this is a thing that we can have people get better from. As long as I know theres a cure i'm not really worried.

 

[totowhoa]

Pays to be Jewish at times!

Spoiler

I wouldn't worry if I wasn't. not yet

 

[NomarTyme]

I don't know if I want to go to the gym now.

 

[BlueTsunami]

I think you're better off getting enough sleep, exercising, and eating healthy. Unless this thing thrives on strong immune systems like some flu varieties do.

On the CNN page it stated that "The majority of cases have occurred between the ages of 25 and 44". That isn't to say it thrives though but effecting people in this age group seems surprising.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Are any chilango GAFfers enjoying their quarantine?

 

[speculawyer]

Time to convert to Islam. Or Judaism

Dude, they don't get the flu by eating pork.

 

[Bananakin]

On the slightly more positive side, CNN did have this to say:

A pandemic is defined as: a new virus to which everybody is susceptible; the ability to readily spread from person to person; and the capability of causing significant disease in humans, said Dr. Jay Steinberg, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta. The new strain of swine flu meets only one of the criteria: novelty.

 

[NotWii]

I'm not worried. Nothing will happen. They try to scare us with a new threat every other year. Before swine flu, it was avian flu. Before that, it was West Nile Virus.

Avian Flu is still a big threat, it's just a matter of time before it goes pandemic.

 

[BigBoss]

On the slightly more positive side, CNN did have this to say:

Sanjay Gupta said the exact opposite when he was talking with Anderson Cooper, he said it was serious and it meets every condition of an epidemic except for one condition, how long the strain will remain deadly.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Avian Flu is still a big threat, it's just a matter of time before it goes pandemic.

A reference from the Avian Flu Wiki

The world is teetering on the edge of a pandemic that could kill a large fraction of the human population

Robert G. Webster, Elizabeth Jane Walker

I haven't read it yet but looks interesting

 

[OnPoint]

You're forgetting SARS

So is the rest of the world.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Madagascar just shut itself down.

 

[BeEatNU]

For the past couple of days, I've been experiencing sore throat, runny nose and coughing.

OMG?!?! Could it be?

Ahahah I already have the flu and I feel shithouse :lol

T_T

Damn I had this shit since Sunday

I guess we are all downers.

 

[Ether_Snake]

I think you're better off getting enough sleep, exercising, and eating healthy. Unless this thing thrives on strong immune systems like some flu varieties do.

So far it seems to, since they say all deaths were young people or adults, not babies or old people.

EDIT: Damnit this is not fair, I want to live in peaceful times. At least like American women during WWII.

EDIT2: Mexico says 68 deaths due to flu.

 

[BeEatNU]

So far it seems to, since they say all deaths were young people or adults, not babies or old people.

EDIT: Damnit this is not fair, I want to live in peaceful times. At least like American women during WWII.

EDIT2: Mexico says 68 deaths due to flu.

Well I guess it's safe to say I'm good or I would be dead already.

24hours from getting it people died right?

 

[Ether_Snake]

Doesn't mean it's not coming for you!

 

[Sibylus]

Freaky as hell, but intensely fascinating. Combined genetic material from pigs, birds, and humans, how did this thing evolve?

Tell me a story, ScienceGaf!

 

[whytemyke]

OMG! 8 whole people in the US have been infected!! Everybody take a Lysol bath.:lol :lol

Do some research on the spread of a possible outbreak of the Avian Flu (I forget the exact genome currently) and you'll see that a pandemic is nothing to scoff at. ESPECIALLY if it starts in the Americas where we're not isolated from the rest of the world.

 

[BeEatNU]

Doesn't mean it's not coming for you!

Freaky as hell, but intensely fascinating. Combined genetic material from pigs, birds, and humans, how did this thing evolve?

Tell me a story, ScienceGaf!

shit doesn't seem right to evolve naturally like that. Sounds like some shit made in a lab.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Freaky as hell, but intensely fascinating. Combined genetic material from pigs, birds, and humans, how did this thing evolve?

Tell me a story, ScienceGaf!

The link I posted a couple of posts up explains the basics of Influenza and its history. From the article, pigs have apparently acted as a gateway between species (avian and humans). Also the flu shouldn't have been able to jump from avian to human as widespread but that's what the recent Avian flu has done.

As it happens, the form of the virus found in wild birds doesn't replicate well in human beings, and so it must first move to an intermediate host—usually domestic fowl or swine—that drinks water contaminated by the feces of aquatic birds. Horses, whales, seals and mink are also periodically infected with influenza. Although the intermediate hosts can sicken and die from the infection, swine can live long enough to serve as "mixing vessels" for the genes of avian, porcine and human forms of influenza. This occurs because swine have receptors for both avian viruses and human viruses.

Swine have probably played an important role in the history of the human disease. These animals appear to serve as living laboratories where the avian and mammalian influenza viruses can come together and share their genes (a reassortment of RNA segments) and create new strains of flu. When a strain of virus migrates into the human population, it changes into a disease-causing microbe that replicates in the respiratory tract. A sneeze or a cough spreads the virus in a contagious aerosol mist that is rich in virus particles.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Yeah why aren't the news talking about HOW this thing might have started?

 

[RadioHeadAche]

Handsoap is and will continue to be my best friend.