Or the postie died of it before he could get to your house.
We've not got ours either. So I hermetically sealed the house until it's arrival...
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H1N1 ("Swine") Flu
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Or the postie died of it before he could get to your house.
We've not got ours either. So I hermetically sealed the house until it's arrival...
How will you know it has arrived if your house is all sealed up? Also, you're eventually going to run out of oxygen in there. Good luck
You too? Clearly, it's a conspiracy against us UK MacRumormongers. I think we should call it oinkgate.
Good to see you've taken sensible precautions, though.
The letter box has a UV saturated airlock attached
I'm also wearing a tin foil hat, just in case!
I don't think it's an urban legend, but one woman in NYC is said to have done that very thing, during the S.A.R.S. crisis.
That 50 million though, if I'm reading it right, are the generic antiviral drugs this new order of 90 million does is for a vaccine tailored for the swine flu strain.
I wonder if I'll get a swine flu shot this winter then, along with my normal flu jab? Oink oink.
There has been for a while...
Ooh, apparently our SwineFlu info thing came the other day. No idea where it is now though...
School cancelled for one week -- Swine flu scare.
Well it happened... schools in my part of Japan have actually cancelled school for a week because of the swine flu. There were some cases in a nearby city, and because of it they've decided not to take any risks.
Unfortunately, I still have to go (as a teacher), but there're no students and no classes.
What do you think? Is the swine flu something to worry about, or is it all a bunch of hogwash?
Is the swine flu any more or less dangerous than the "normal" flus that circulate?
Well it happened... schools in my part of Japan have actually cancelled school for a week because of the swine flu. There were some cases in a nearby city, and because of it they've decided not to take any risks.
Unfortunately, I still have to go (as a teacher), but there're no students and no classes.
What do you think? Is the swine flu something to worry about, or is it all a bunch of hogwash?
Is the swine flu any more or less dangerous than the "normal" flus that circulate?
^^ On the world map it shows Australia with 500 cases in fact it's over 1000:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/swine-flu-cases-continue-to-rise-20090607-bztu.html
What happens in the next few months in the Southern Hemisphere countries will give some idea how virulent it may be.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/swine-flu-cases-continue-to-rise-20090607-bztu.html
What happens in the next few months in the Southern Hemisphere countries will give some idea how virulent it may be.
Out of interest, which country are you in windywoo?
I hope your acquaintance makes a speedy recovery.
A couple of people at my university (Edinburgh based university) tested positive for it. On the bright side their friends (including someone my best friend lives with) all tested negatively and the infected have been packed off to their native Greece. It seems they'll be fine.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5407956/Swine-flu-students-at-university-investigated.html
There's some interesting bits:
"Dr Panagiotopoulos wrote: "Cases of the new influenza A (H1N1) infection are for the first time confirmed in travellers from one European country to another, with no specific history of exposure to a traveller from Mexico or the United States and no traceable link to the source of infection.
"It is probably necessary to modify the present EU definition of "cases under investigation" to also include clusters of patients with influenza-like illness, irrespective of travel history."
He pointed out that under the official EU-wide criteria for a suspected case, these students would not have been tested because of the lack of travel history to an affected area and no contact with a confirmed or probable case and this means 'we are by definition going to miss cases infected locally in the event of established community transmission without known and identified chain(s) of transmission'."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5407956/Swine-flu-students-at-university-investigated.html
There's some interesting bits:
"Dr Panagiotopoulos wrote: "Cases of the new influenza A (H1N1) infection are for the first time confirmed in travellers from one European country to another, with no specific history of exposure to a traveller from Mexico or the United States and no traceable link to the source of infection.
"It is probably necessary to modify the present EU definition of "cases under investigation" to also include clusters of patients with influenza-like illness, irrespective of travel history."
He pointed out that under the official EU-wide criteria for a suspected case, these students would not have been tested because of the lack of travel history to an affected area and no contact with a confirmed or probable case and this means 'we are by definition going to miss cases infected locally in the event of established community transmission without known and identified chain(s) of transmission'."
I heard the Swine industry doesn't like "Swine Flu" being called that because it's making them loose money. They want you to refer to it as "H1N1".
It's only called "swine" flu for historical reasons. There's only limited evidence that this particular strain circulated in swine. Now excuse me, my bacon is ready...
It's not over yet. The virus is killing a larger proportion of "healthy" people relative to seasonal influenza. Australia is getting hammered, as are the indigenous folks of northern Manitoba (just like with the 1918 virus).
as a victorian (hard hit place)
EAT SOME CEMENT AND HARDEN UP, PRINCESS
seriously, i most likely had H1N1 as it is a pretty piss weak strain of flu, it just gives you a regular cold (as reported in victoria, people with what seems like a cold are reported to have h1n1)
so, if you die, bad luck, win to natural selection
anyways, don't worry about a pandemic this year, like with the 1918 outbreak, its the second year that people should worry about.
seriously, i ride public transport in a hard hit city, get over it, its just a strain that developed and got out before the PREVENTIVE anti flu shot could.
Ordianary flu mutuates and is diffrent every year, multiple mutated strains travle the world each year, not all are in the flu shot target market, the h1n1 is just one they missed.
/rant
ps, more people have died so far of ordinary flu because they didnt get of have access to the flu shot
pps, in honor of fear mongering, this game is greatPandemic II
EAT SOME CEMENT AND HARDEN UP, PRINCESS
seriously, i most likely had H1N1 as it is a pretty piss weak strain of flu, it just gives you a regular cold (as reported in victoria, people with what seems like a cold are reported to have h1n1)
so, if you die, bad luck, win to natural selection
anyways, don't worry about a pandemic this year, like with the 1918 outbreak, its the second year that people should worry about.
seriously, i ride public transport in a hard hit city, get over it, its just a strain that developed and got out before the PREVENTIVE anti flu shot could.
Ordianary flu mutuates and is diffrent every year, multiple mutated strains travle the world each year, not all are in the flu shot target market
, the h1n1 is just one they missed./rant
ps, more people have died so far of ordinary flu because they didnt get of have access to the flu shot
pps, in honor of fear mongering, this game is greatPandemic II