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Pig flu - are you worried?
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I had to laugh to myself yesterday - the guy who caught pig flu from his mate who came back from Mexico with it, told the news he felt rough for a few days, but feels much better now.
Maybe it is as serious as man flu?
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From past experience, we also know that influenza may cause mild disease in affluent countries, but more severe disease, with higher mortality, in developing countries.
No matter what the situation is, the international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2009/h1n1_20090429/en/index.html
http://portal.salud.gob.mx/contenidos/noticias/influenza/estadisticas.html
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Yup, we've had that down here (SW). The farmer wants Swine Flu to be renamed Novel Human Flu or Mexican Flu.
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Hmmm... Government gets slated if they do prepare, I'm fairly sure the government would get slated if they didn't prepare and things did go pear shaped...
There are a lot of people out there spouting uninformed *******s... Professionals are worried for good reason, if nothing serious happens it'll be partly down to people doing their job right. The H1N1 flu outbreak in 1918 killed more people than WW1 and is estimated to have infected over half the world's population.
Same with IT. Y2K bug was diffused because people who knew what they were doing worked away while the media interviewed people who knew naff all, professionals fixed what needed to be fixed, media called it a duff.
Lessons to be learnt? If you want the facts, read the professional journals, don't listen to the Daily Mail. If the professionals are worryingly quiet and working away, hey, perhaps they actually know more than that guy in the pub who told you it was all a load of bull... There's no reason to be worried but that's because people are doing their jobs.
There are a lot of people out there spouting uninformed *******s... Professionals are worried for good reason, if nothing serious happens it'll be partly down to people doing their job right. The H1N1 flu outbreak in 1918 killed more people than WW1 and is estimated to have infected over half the world's population.
Same with IT. Y2K bug was diffused because people who knew what they were doing worked away while the media interviewed people who knew naff all, professionals fixed what needed to be fixed, media called it a duff.
Lessons to be learnt? If you want the facts, read the professional journals, don't listen to the Daily Mail. If the professionals are worryingly quiet and working away, hey, perhaps they actually know more than that guy in the pub who told you it was all a load of bull... There's no reason to be worried but that's because people are doing their jobs.
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I thought it was the other way round.
Canada, farm worker 'infects pigs'
A herd of pigs in Canada has tested positive for swine flu, apparently after being infected by a farm worker recently returned from Mexico.
The herd, in the western province of Alberta, has been quarantined.
Both the man and the pigs were recovering, he added, saying that the virus did not seem to have spread beyond the farm.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8031309.stm
Canada, farm worker 'infects pigs'
A herd of pigs in Canada has tested positive for swine flu, apparently after being infected by a farm worker recently returned from Mexico.
The herd, in the western province of Alberta, has been quarantined.
Both the man and the pigs were recovering, he added, saying that the virus did not seem to have spread beyond the farm.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8031309.stm
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If level five means that it is being passed from human to human in two or more countries then perhaps the media should be told about the current H.I.V., A.I.D.S, and Chlamydia PANDEMIC.
Some truth in this, however HIV, AIDS and Chlamydia all have a large element of personal control, I can not contract these illnesses without intimate personal contact and some degree of irresponsibility ignoring established control measures.
The flu virus however is passed from person to person by non-intimate social contact, not even personal contact. This makes it a much greater threat.
Right now I am not worried, it is a Pandemic, but no strong evidence that it has a higher mortality rate to the flu viruses in common circulation. If it is then it has been a useful test for the world to understand our readiness to deal with the inevitable species weeder that evolution throws up from time to time. Difference is that now our species has a degree of choice - do we work together to control it or not!!
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I've just had flu, well I still have the tail end of it (no i'm not feeling curly), at no point did I wonder if I was going to die.
Hundreds of thousands of people die from your regular common or garden seasonal flu, the number of deaths are nowhere near that yet. I'd bet that more people have died of normal flu since swine flu has been in the news.
Hundreds of thousands of people die from your regular common or garden seasonal flu, the number of deaths are nowhere near that yet. I'd bet that more people have died of normal flu since swine flu has been in the news.
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to be fair, i dont read papers or watch news. I hope somewhere there is some very clever people doing things to control it. butfrom what i last heard(a few days ago now, granted) 2 people had been confirmed in this country, not exactly large numbers really...