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- chanop, on 04/24/2009, -0/+23Great, they're ***** with our bacon now
- richmomz, on 04/24/2009, -4/+26Wasn't there a story a month ago about some human flu vaccines that "somehow" got contaminated with Avian flu in Europe, and the pharmaceutical company responsible (Baxter I think) couldn't explain how it possibly could have happened? Yeah...
EDIT: Link to Infowars discussion of the story referenced above: http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-on-coast-to-coa ... - kd420, on 04/24/2009, -0/+18Don't know why you're getting buried, for a 100% true comment. I have yet to hear of a person who did not eventually die...
- inactive, on 04/24/2009, -4/+19FTA; 'US medical authorities expressed strong concern Friday about an unprecedented multi-strain swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 60 people in Mexico and infected seven people in the United States...."We have determined that this virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human," the CDC said on its website. "However, at this time, we have not determined how easily the virus spreads between people.'
Did you read that? Its killed 60 so far, has come into the US from Mexico, and this virus Is contagious and spreading from Human to Human.
I do not wish to sound alarmist, but it would be a good idea to prepare...this could get very bad. - joshf52, on 04/24/2009, -1/+15Time to bust out the ol' zombie survival kit.
- UtahApocalyse, on 04/24/2009, -0/+12"Bring out ye dead, Bring out ye dead!!"
- picciano, on 04/24/2009, -1/+13The above post is not correct. Please be advised.
From: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-f ...
Vaccines are available to be given to pigs to prevent swine influenza. There is no vaccine to protect humans from swine flu although the CDC is formulating one. The seasonal influenza vaccine may help provide partial protection against swine H3N2, but not swine H1N1 viruses, like the one circulating now. - dannythepanda, on 04/24/2009, -2/+12I'm in Mexico DF airport as I write this..... *****!
- bffoley, on 04/24/2009, -2/+11Are you serious. Each year the media comes out with alarmist ***** about some virus or bacteria (Bird Flu, West Nile Virus, EEE, medicine resistant TB, etc etc) and it kills maybe a hundred or so people living in ***** and/or people who handle animals for a living, and then it goes away. The media just needs something to waste time until hurricane season starts
- rawnzilla, on 04/24/2009, -0/+9Captain Trips?
- inactive, on 04/24/2009, -1/+10So that's what those new mass graves and FEMA coffins are for.
- Xaevier, on 04/24/2009, -2/+10Where is Will Smith we need to take his blood and make a cure!
- bffoley, on 04/24/2009, -2/+10I love how people arent reading into this story at all. They seven people in the USA are cured. They're fine. Its the CDC's job to be "concerned" about this *****. There is no pandemic and we're nowhere near close to calling this a pandemic.
The CDC was also concerned about Bird Flu. Remember that? How about EEE? Or West Nile Virus? Or TB last year? Or the Flesh-Eating-Virus? - Xaevier, on 04/24/2009, -5/+13Ok, who left the LSD brownies out again?
- ricker2005, on 04/24/2009, -0/+7It's not "magically" rearing its ugly head again. There are basically two sources of flu viruses that end up causing epidemics in humans. Those sources are birds (poultry for the most part) and pigs. The flu virus spreads in the animal population until the right set of mutations/circumstances arises and then it spreads into humans. It's also not a surprise in any way that some form of swine flu would start infecting people decades after the last outbreak. That's how flu outbreaks work. Eventually enough people are sick or resistant and the number of new infections drops to almost nothing until the virus can mutate again.
- salinasj, on 04/24/2009, -0/+72 of the 7 were at my high school in Texas. I probably know them too. Scary.
- albenza, on 04/24/2009, -0/+7Finally some news worth reading... I was getting bored with the whole economy break down - So yesterday.
- protogenxl, on 04/24/2009, -0/+6I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own!
- Swirly83, on 04/24/2009, -0/+6The reason this is so scary is that it takes some real time to make a vaccine. Every year around August, right next to where I go to school for microbiology at the Center for Vaccine Development in Baltimore, MD, they have a metting with WHO to deciede what strains of Influenzea will be contained in the vaccine for the comming year. It is not easy to produce a vaccine. It is not a high tech process. The strain is actually grown in thousands of fertilized chicken eggs. If there really is an epidemic/pandemic on our hands, we will not be able to produce the vaccine we need in time to handle it. Right now, they are working overtime to get a working vaccine for this particular strain.
In addition to not being able to vaccinate the people in danger in time, recent strains of flu have been incredibly resistant to new antiviral drugs being made. A drug that was released last year, Tamiflu, was suposed to treat both Influenzae A and B when a doctor didn't know which strain the patient had. This year 90%the prevalent strain of flu that went around, which I think was H2N7.
The fear is that this is how the Flu pandemic of 1918 (Spanish Flu) started, by moving to humans and bybassing the animal vector. The Spanish Flu killed 500,000 americans and an estimated 50 - 100 million people world wide and only lasted about 6 months. It was the same strain of flu that is moving from pigs to humans now, H1N1.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no01/05-0979.ht ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_epidemic#Vic ... - Swirly83, on 04/24/2009, -0/+6Little update on the Tamiflu resistance:
Turns out it is only the A strain of H1N1 that was 90% resistant this year (which acounted for 2/3 of the cases in the US) as compared with 12% last year. It is not conclusive but it is thought that this rise in resistance is not due to over use of the drug but random mutation in the population of the virus. I can't link the article I got this from because it is from the ASCP's Daily Diagnosis and you need to be a member of ASCP to see it. Don't really see how that helps the public, but that really isn't their purpose either. - NodOfficer, on 04/25/2009, -1/+7Followup Report: Madagascar closes its borders.
- CSimonds, on 04/24/2009, -8/+14I can hear the pharmaceutical companies rubbing their hands in glee! Oh boy! A windfall!
The "swine flu" went around back in the 80s and then was never heard about again. Now it magically rears its ugly head again? - glasnostic, on 04/24/2009, -4/+9i'm in San Antonio.. we get lots of people from Mexico here.. we also have an outbreak of wild hogs..
i'm a bit concerned. - danj321, on 04/24/2009, -0/+5We were worried about birds the entire time and it was the pigs who were out to get us!!! DAMNIT!!!!
- ghostfackilr, on 04/25/2009, -0/+5oh no. not swine flu. Im already half dead from bird flu.
- Dumbledorito, on 04/24/2009, -1/+6When they came for my sheep, I said nothing.
When they came for my cows, I tried not to think about it.
When they came for my chickens, I just closed the browser and didn't use Google Image search again.
When they came for my pigs... I hoped they would leave the horses alone. - Waiting2awake, on 04/25/2009, -0/+5this is payback for bacon isn't it?
- Vaasman, on 04/24/2009, -10/+15Dear My Reality,
Don't drink the kool-aid
Sincerely,
American with a brain. - LeepII, on 04/24/2009, -0/+5Let's not forget Cheney's major investment in Tamiflu, gee almost like he knew ahead of time.
- redoctane, on 04/24/2009, -7/+12WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
- jsnchmpn, on 04/24/2009, -1/+6Afterall.... the number one cause of death is birth.
- Napiertt, on 04/25/2009, -0/+5Thanks for your input. After reading so many idiotic responses on Digg on various topics, it's nice to read an intelligent post.
- maliath, on 04/24/2009, -2/+7I stand corrected. I assumed H1N1 from swine was the same as H1N1 from humans. I apologize.
Also, thank you picciano for correcting me - orlyfactor, on 04/24/2009, -0/+5But I'm not dead yet...
- CLAWC, on 04/25/2009, -0/+4The end is near. This stuff sounds pretty insane. *sigh*
- StriderNemesis, on 04/24/2009, -2/+6Mexican officials say that the virus originated in the US, because the California infections happened before any of the infections recorded in Mexico. American officials have NOT said that the virus came from Mexico. Stop speculating.
- humperdeath, on 04/24/2009, -1/+5At least it's not Mad Cow anymore. That was skeeery!
- Antz0rz, on 04/24/2009, -1/+5quick! start stocking up on bacon!
- siszam, on 04/25/2009, -0/+4I talked to my friend who lives just outside Mexico City. She said the schools are all closed and no one is going outside without a mask. Mexico seems to be taking this very seriously. I hate to see the comments here that make light of this. I suspect most of the people who don't take it seriously have never lived through the crushing pain of a real flu. It's the closest to death I've ever been and it's frightening to think it might spread very quickly.....especially with the constant influx of people over the border.
- Swirly83, on 04/24/2009, -2/+6Bird Flu was nearly a world wide disaster and it was only though quick action on the part of each countries involved that it didn't get out of hand. Remeber the face maks? The culling of all those chickens? It all helped it not become a pandemic.
TB is still a huge threat and is one of the biggest killers of all time.
The US was lucky that strain of West Nile Virus was only virulent to monkeys because it was almost identical to the one that is wrecking havoc in other areas.
Educate yourself on the actuall events and stop just reading back the one or two headlines you read when it happend. - PisoMojado, on 04/24/2009, -0/+4Boy, right you are!
"Venture capital firm set to reap rewards on swine flu"
http://uk.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNew ... - Bloodwine, on 04/24/2009, -0/+4I know we have them to thank for the recent resurgence of Tuberculosis
- inactive, on 04/24/2009, -0/+3LSD brownies? Are those anything like meth cookies?
- mysticalone, on 04/24/2009, -1/+4Who filled Miss Piggy with a sausage?!
- Swirly83, on 04/24/2009, -0/+3Smallpox was erradicated, not Polio. Polio is almost there and we're on the verge of eliminating schistosomaiasis ('snail fever' endemic to parts of Africa) and maybe even malaria in another 10 years since the vaccines are just around the corner.
- Swirly83, on 04/24/2009, -1/+4http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2009/s090109.htm
This was a drug that the scientists who made it claimed that it was 'so well designed' that there would be little resistance to it in the comming years. A little more than a year later the strain of flu that accounted for more than 2/3 of the known cases was 90% resistant to the drug. Do not assume that humans have come very far at all. If you would have read the article on the 1918 pandemic you would have known that we just LAST YEAR found out why mostly young, healthy men were dying faster and in higher numbers than anyone else. It was an over reaction of their healthy immune system that killed them faster than anyone else. Medicine is nowhere near where it is to combat a similar outbreak like the 1918 pandemic. I have a more detailed post further down in the comments. You should read it. - serif69, on 04/24/2009, -6/+9I think I can speak for many of us when I say, "What?"
- DirtyVicar, on 04/25/2009, -0/+3***** everywhere in the airport? man, it really must be bad.
- mikeinto, on 04/25/2009, -0/+3and 28 days later........
- Pilot85, on 04/25/2009, -0/+3I buried your comment. Do you know why? Because you are stupid, and that's what I do to comments from stupid people. I bury them.
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