Swine flu

The problem with comparing this outbreak to 1976 is that in it's 1st night this outbreak was already worse then the 1976 outbreak

As for TB most people are vaccinated for TB, most aren't for the flu, and nearly 1/2 the new cases are thought to be immigrants from developing countries. TB is also a bacteria that can be treated. Influenza is a virus that antibiotics have no effect on. The other problem with any influenza outbreak is the general speed it kills it's victims since when an epidemic occurs it's a usually because of a particularly deadly strain.

It probably will wind up being nothing, but we're going to have another flu pandemic, and statistically anytime in the present would be right timing

 

I worked at a hospital up til 2 month ago and was vaccinated for the flu in NOV 08..
So naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

 

Most people who get vaccinated are the first ones to go.

 

heh

I'll just where a sars mask when I get back to the city this weekend....

 

lol. This is not going to be anything huge. At least not in countries where health care is 100%

 

But it can be, strains of the flu that are overly deadly are so because they kill relatively quickly, and most people won't go to a doctor for a flu, but if they're part of that 1-2% that might die from it by the time they get sick enough to seek treatment it's too late, you can't cure a virus.

Plus it's not even death itself, imagine if a 1/4 of the country got a horrible flu within the next like 4 months, what a miserable 4 months that's going to be for everyone.

 

this flu is just the flu, dont add to the panic, in the US there has only been 64 cases coast to coast, including alaska and hawaii and nobody has died, in canada there has only been 4 cases

facts from the center for disease control
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/

 

Dude, the spanish flu in 1918 was just the normal H1N1 strain of the flu too, it's different mutations of it

 

OMG! We all gonna die! Grab your Tits and hold your Shits! It's Armageddon come alive!

 

I was way ahead of you

 

Hey girl! don't hog, lemme get a hand on one

 

aenima, and everything is ok.

listen to it when meteors and shit soon id they happened

and then everything

fuck

 

I didnt go for the to the dr for the flu, i went for stress fractured ribs from coughing..

 

kid in texas just died from it....first death in the US

 

The kid was not even two years old. Although it is a very sad thing. Everyone is aware that the people who would most likely be affected by the flu are the very old and the very young. I think it could go either way. It could turn into the worst case of plague or it will just die out. Nature has a way of cutting the populations every once in a while. This could be one of those times.

 

^Agreed....hopefully it dies out :/

 

Odd fact about the 1918 pandemic which made it even more horrible then normal, about 95% of people who died were actually young adults, people under 65 but older then small children.

But screw kids, kids are notorious for spreading the flu in the fact they often carry the actual influenza virus long after they stop showing signs of being sick.

 

^^ Right, those messy kids always spreading germs. They should just close the schools until this blows over.

 

or kill the kids?

 

Make them live behind stone walls in their own society....yeah that should do it.

Lol kids are really nasty with spreading germs and they really don't think twice about washing their hands or what to wipe their noses and such with sometimes.