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Swine Flu pandemic approaches

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I've been reading up on the countermeasures Japan's taking at its international airports for flights from North America... scary. I'm flying back into Narita on May 9 and May 27.
 
Hitokage said:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol12no01/05-0979.htm

1918 Spanish Flu lethality chart:
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Needs to be quoted for this page so that people realize how these things operate..
 
pestul said:
Needs to be quoted for this page so that people realize how these things operate..
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Because nothing at all has changed, in terms of medical technologies, opportunities for transmission, or tools for global communication, since 1918.

Sorry, this may turn sour but it's a whole different ballgame.
 
maharg said:
Because nothing at all has changed, in terms of medical technologies, opportunities for transmission, or tools for global communication, since 1918.

Sorry, this may turn sour but it's a whole different ballgame.
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Thank god I am not the only one who knows this....
 
I wish someone would come up with the odds from dying from the swine
flu virus.

We all need some perspective.

I bet that crazy staph infection that has been going around has killed way more people so far.

In 2005, there were more than 94,000 cases of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which contributed to more than 18,000 deaths, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. yup
 
cvxfreak said:
I've been reading up on the countermeasures Japan's taking at its international airports for flights from North America... scary. I'm flying back into Narita on May 9 and May 27.
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Hopefully things don't escalate too much more. I'm might go to Japan for the first time on May 13th. However, its good that they are taking alot of precautions.
 
Fuck this. Starting tomorrow, I will probably have to stop working on what I'm supposed to be working on to monitor this whole flu mania.
 
Thankfully, Georgia has that Alabama/Mississippi buffer to absorb all the flu.

I'm totally ignoring the gigantic airport that just happens to be here, btw. Funny how that thing just popped up...
 
I had to go to the hospital for a blood draw (completely unrelated to this flu). There were two other people waiting with masks on, and one of them got called back at the same time I did.

The nurse swabbed her cheeks and then sent her away, and then she drew my blood.

I better not get the goddam flu. Who calls two people back at the same time? I mean what the fuck?

*washes hands furiously*
 
Full Recovery said:
I had to go to the hospital for a blood draw (completely unrelated to this flu). There were two other people waiting with masks on, and one of them got called back at the same time I did.

The nurse swabbed her cheeks and then sent her away, and then she drew my blood.

I better not get the goddam flu. Who calls two people back at the same time? I mean what the fuck?

*washes hands furiously*
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cloudwalking said:
yep, someone did it...

fuck swine flu t-shirts:

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$15

http://www.districtlines.com/Swine-Flu
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Swine Flu is out, H1N1 influenza A is the new hotness. :lol

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090430/ap_on_he_me/un_who_swine_flu

WHO to stop using term 'swine flu' to protect pigs

By FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Writer

GENEVA – The World Health Organization announced Thursday it will would stop using the term "swine flu" to avoid confusion over the danger posed by pigs. The policy shift came a day after Egypt began slaughtering thousands of pigs in a misguided effort to prevent swine flu.

WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said the agriculture industry and the U.N. food agency had expressed concerns that the term "swine flu" was misleading consumers and needlessly causing countries to ban pork products and order the slaughter of pigs.
"Rather than calling this swine flu ... we're going to stick with the technical scientific name H1N1 influenza A," Thompson said.

Egypt began slaughtering its roughly 300,000 pigs Wednesday even though experts said swine flu is not linked to pigs and not spread by eating pork. Angry farmers protested the government decree.

In Paris, the World Organization for Animal Health said Thursday "there is no evidence of infection in pigs, nor of humans acquiring infection directly from pigs."
Killing pigs "will not help to guard against public or animal health risks" presented by the virus and "is inappropriate," the group said in a statement.
China, Russia, Ukraine and other nations have banned pork exports from Mexico and parts of the United States, blaming swine flu fears.
Most in the Muslim world consider pigs unclean animals and do not eat pork because of religious restrictions. The farmers in Egypt raise the pigs for consumption by the country's Christian minority.

WHO also reported the number of confirmed swine flu cases rose to 257 worldwide Thursday, with cases in Mexico rising to 97 from 26, with seven deaths. The WHO confirmed tally from the United States now stands at 109, with one death.
Other confirmed cases include 19 in Canada, 13 in Spain, eight in Britain, three each in Germany and New Zealand, two in Israel and one each in Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Thompson told reporters in Geneva that at least one of the Spanish cases involved a person who had not traveled to Mexico. Spanish officials said that was a man who apparently got the virus from his girlfriend, who recently returned from Mexico.
WHO raised the pandemic flu alert to phase 5 on Wednesday, one step away from the highest level indicating a global outbreak. WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday there were no indications in the past day that would prompt the U.N. body to raise the alert further.

To move from pandemic alert level 5 to level 6 means that WHO believes there is evidence of big outbreaks in at least two world regions and a pandemic is under way.
Fukuda said the jump in confirmed cases from Mexico was probably the result of scientists working their way through a backlog of untested samples from suspected cases.
"They are going through several thousands of laboratory specimens right now," he said.
WHO has started distributing its stockpile of 2 million courses of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to regional offices, which will decide where to send them next.
Many of those drugs will go to developing countries that don't have stockpiles of their own and some will be sent to Mexico, Fukuda said, without providing figures.
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gnarkill bill said:
How you been feeling, man? I remember you were sick as hell a couple days ago.
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Just got back from the doctor again today, with a new set of antibiotics. Still have a severe throat infection. Swollen tonsils and raw throat, spread to the base of my tongue. Have about 20% of my normal speaking voice, been sleeping 4 hours a night from the pain.

But they gave me more codeine, so when I get home I'm going to take it and then float away to a happy happy fluffy place and hope to hell the antibiotics work. So not so hot, but I'll at least be happy.

At the doctor today, I was asked if I'd been to Mexico. I thought she was joking at first, but then realized she was deadly serious. I tend to disregard most of the mainstream media, so I was kind of surprised.
 
Well damn they just shut down the local school district here in weslaco, texas . They have a case and thought it prudent to shut it down for a week :/
 
Brannon said:
Thankfully, Georgia has that Alabama/Mississippi buffer to absorb all the flu.

I'm totally ignoring the gigantic airport that just happens to be here, btw. Funny how that thing just popped up...
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Phoenix said:
NYC has had it for a LONG time. I'm surprised that we haven't seen it in Atlanta, GA to be 100% honest... THAT is a miracle considering how busy and crowded Hartsfield is.
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Sorry Georgia folks:

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=129684&catid=40

ATLANTA -- Health officials have confirmed the first case of swine flu in Georgia.

The head of Georgia's Division of Public Health said Thursday a 30-year-old woman from Kentucky who had traveled to LaGrange in west Georgia had fallen ill. She had been in Cancun, Mexico earlier this month.

The World Health Organization has raised its alert level to Phase 5, the second-highest, indicating a pandemic may be imminent.

Swine flu has symptoms nearly identical to regular flu -- fever, cough and sore throat -- and spreads like regular flu, through tiny particles in the air, when people cough or sneeze.

People with flu symptoms are advised to stay at home, wash their hands and cover their sneezes.

On its website, the West Georgia Health System has the following statement:

"The Centers for Disease and Infection Control have confirmed a case of swine-like influenza. The patient is now from this area and had recently retured from a triple to Mexico. The patient has been in isolation since entering the hospital. People who have had contact with the patient are being notified by public health. The hospital is fully operational and is taking every precaution to ensure the safety and well-being of our patients, visitors and employees. Preventive measures have been taken with employees who have had direct contact with the patient."

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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All thanks to Hartsfield, probably
 
I really hope they don't close my school within the week. I have fraking AP tests next week. :\ Then again, I really wasn't looking forward to taking them in the first place.
 
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