Now I care

At first I didnt care about this swine flu, but the fact that it's on the east coast now, I care a little bit more.
http://news.aol.com/article/swine-f...ews.aol.com/article/swine-flu-outbreak/449320

A school in NY was closed due to swine flu outbreak.

 

so far all but a couple people who have gotten it in the US have come back from Mexico...

 

Oh well now I dont care.

someone delete this thread now.

 

Oh cool Boston

 

And they're spreading it as quick as it spread in Mexico.

The mayor of NYC announced today several hundred school kids have what is probably swine flu

4 cases have been found here in Connecticut.

The problem is, hundreds of people get the flu in NYC, it's going to spread like wildfire there, and you pass thousands of people on the streets of NYC, then all the trains going out of Grand Central and Penn Station radiate around the north east and southwards to DC

 

dude. im wearing a sars mask to school..

 

wow.

this is now the first time i actually care.

 

damn dude...tis a scary world we live in right now

 

dude.. why the fuck do we have like so many different animal flus.. soon theres gonna be zebra flu.

 

its actually gonna be the inextesie flu

stop breathing our air man

 

Influenza is pandemic in many animals, like avian flu. Avian flu never mutated to the point though where it was thought to be transmissible from person to person, only bird to person. The swine flu started off as pig influenza but took on parts of both avian and human influenza and is apparently very capable of being transmitted from person to person

 

Did you see Orison's thread in the RT forums about using his flegm as a bio-weapon?

that shit made me laugh for like 15 minutes.

(he had the flu)

___

back on topic, have there been any deaths in the US?

 

the first cases are in Queens, new york. a borough of NYC. A catholic h.s. was closed when 8 cases were confirmed. That was yesterday. Today they confirmed 20 at that school. The small group initially went to mexico for spring break.

It has not yet become a pandemic because of the small amount of people contaminated in the infected areas.

It has spread to new zealand, canada, usa, etc. it is getting wide spread. But its nothing to freak about yet.

 

*freaks*

 

No, no deaths in the US that we know about yet, so far the cases outside of Mexico have only been mild, as were most in Mexico, it's only had about 1.5-2% mortality rate in Mexico, but that's still gigantic for the normal .1% the flu has, and other countries have just started to become infected with it.

Really though everything that's gone down with this has happened in like 6 days

 

=/ what if this ended up being like the black plague :X

 

Actually the bubonic plague still happens to random people, but that's a bacterial disease and can be treated easily with antibiotics if found early enough. Just a bit of irony, if only people in 1360 knew one day people would laugh at the plague

 

Hahah, well in 2760 they're gonna laugh at swine flu.

 

Watch they'll cure aids and the flu but still won't be able to cure the common cold

 

Well its going to suck if it does break out during the summer.