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- Arseny89, on 04/26/2009, -12/+536I survived Y2K, SARS, and the bird flu. I'm not worried.
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -10/+391EVERYBODY PANIC!
- diwen, on 04/26/2009, -2/+301Meanwhile, Madagascar closes its ports...
- Depthfunction, on 04/26/2009, -23/+258This is such a non-story. I think the news media just likes to use the phrase "GLOBAL PANDEMIC". Let's look at their track record:
Ebola = GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!
SARS = GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!
Drug-resistant TB = GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!
Bird Flu = GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!
Swine Flu = GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!
Everybody chill out. It's just the flu. Everyone in the US who has contracted it has survived. The reason why Mexico has a death toll is because health care there is *****. - theghoul, on 04/26/2009, -4/+204Thanks, but I prefer to freak out.
- koldmilk, on 04/26/2009, -24/+215In before NWO people.
- ryan83189, on 04/26/2009, -6/+191WAKE UP PIGLETS!!!!!!
- jdanzola, on 04/26/2009, -6/+162It was bad enough when birds were gonna do us in, but pigs? really? is there any way it can get more depressing?
- purplesawdust, on 04/26/2009, -2/+155I'm not panicking, i brought my towel.
- 21froggy21, on 04/26/2009, -7/+134But what about....2012!!! Muahahahahahaha
/sarcasm - inactive, on 04/26/2009, -1/+121The pigs flu around the world.
- connieLingus, on 04/26/2009, -12/+128every year around this time we get the "pandemic" news cycle...it sure must sell a lot of papers.
- Shamusjp, on 04/26/2009, -3/+98Gotta make the Escalade payments...
- npsken, on 04/26/2009, -2/+95Don't forget the killer africanized bees!
- ZhiZaki, on 04/26/2009, -4/+96This is one of the drawbacks to having a "global village"..... it's pandemic friendly...
- theghoul, on 04/26/2009, -3/+91"There is no vaccine to protect humans from swine flu, only to protect pigs, according to the CDC."
Uhh Oink? - peaceninja, on 04/26/2009, -2/+86i wonder how many people in the united states will still go to work despite feeling flu-like symptoms?
- PrettyBoyFloyd, on 04/26/2009, -2/+81Look, none of the outbreaks you mention fit the definition of a pandemic. These were outbreaks. The only pandemic we've seen in modern times was the 1918 spanish flu pandemic. Millions of people worldwide died from that one. The similarity between this new outbreak (not yet a pandemic, by strict definition) and the 1918 one is that both appear to have unusually high mortality rates among young, healthy people in their twenties and up to their mid-forties.
Most normal influenza strains are deadlier to the elderly and the very young (infants, toddlers), so these are the people who are always urged to be immunized during regular flu seasons (October to March). This one kills people who usually are not affected by annual Type A or B flu, and it appears to have become widespread very, very late in the normal flu cycle. It is late April, when regular flu strains have begun to die out and our stockpiles of flu vaccine has all been distributed and used. Not that this year's formulation would have had any effect on this wild strain...
There is no reason to panic just yet, but the people I'm working with are gravely concerned. We're going through airline passenger logs right now doing shoeleather epidemiology to try to track exposures. There is a ton of data to collect and analyze in the next few days to make sure we know as much as we can about how many people have been exposed and where they are now.
I'm on call this weekend, during a budget crisis when many of us have to take furlough days to keep the state health department's budget in balance. Our office is busy on a Sunday afternoon, for *****'s sake. There's no reason to panic, but this is the first time we've activated our Joint Emergency Operations Outbreak plan when we weren't just running through our quarterly drill. This is real, dude, but you've got to keep your head around it to make sure you're doing everything right. That's why we spend so much time planning for imaginary scenarios, because we never know when something frighteningly real is going to come up. - kwai, on 04/26/2009, -7/+79Al Qaeda hitting it where it hurts, they went for the bacon.
- lhbaker, on 04/26/2009, -3/+72Ebola isn't that difficult to contain, and infection generally requires contact with infected blood.
SARS actually nearly did become a global pandemic. Within a matter of weeks in early 2003, SARS spread from the Guangdong province of China to rapidly infect individuals in some 37 countries around the world
Bird Flu never successfully made the genetic jump required to become a pandemic.
Swine Flue has already killed more than 80 people, and has already made its way around the globe. Not in weeks, but in DAYS. It is infecting and killing healty adults, which is a hallmark of a pandemic.
This is going to be pretty ***** up. - seltaeb4, on 04/26/2009, -4/+72Soon the pigs will fly... and rain disease upon us!
It's the EndTimes!
/s - BiscuitWorld, on 04/26/2009, -14/+81inb4 the next person to make a Madagascar joke.
- Vladamar, on 04/26/2009, -3/+68Dugg not because I like it, but because it should probably be on the front page.
- coadyj, on 04/26/2009, -7/+71Can sombody please call Dustin Hoffman!!
- BluesFan, on 04/26/2009, -3/+62Apparently it's here in Canada now. Anyways this seems to be spreading faster than SARS let's hope it's not bad.
- mackdaddy187, on 04/26/2009, -10/+66Bacon kills in more than one way now. ;-(
- macmcraeart, on 04/26/2009, -2/+52Not to worry. We are all out of work. (Achoo)
- DrCyclops, on 04/26/2009, -7/+55At least this latest scare is actually killing people. I was getting tired of all that casualty-free doom and gloom.
- Tarokun, on 04/26/2009, -2/+50AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
- badfish0116, on 04/26/2009, -3/+50LOL I could never infect Madagascar!!
- SitPoMk, on 04/26/2009, -0/+45That all depends if Palin is running for the oval office
- ABadPerson, on 04/26/2009, -0/+42restart until you start in Madagascar.
- catalysis, on 04/26/2009, -2/+42The Jews warned us, but we didn't listen. WE DIDN'T LISTEN!!!
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -2/+42Yeah, vaccinations, those money wasters.
- hawkspur, on 04/26/2009, -3/+40I, for one, welcome our new flu-pig overlords.
- AmazingSteve, on 04/26/2009, -0/+37LIES! Bacon wouldn't do this to us.
- ShoujoKakumei, on 04/26/2009, -1/+38Stay home with the flu and not be able to pay rent, or go to work with the flu and maybe infect all the co-workers you hate. Not a hard choice..
- unclecaveman, on 04/26/2009, -4/+35I wish I could digg this comment up twice.
- ryanpoleary, on 04/26/2009, -0/+31Wait, all that work and you're still on digg? This website has become too powerful.
- mrhandyman, on 04/26/2009, -2/+33I am prepared for the pig/human zombie apocalypse.
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -0/+30vaya con dios
- BlueStarr, on 04/26/2009, -7/+36PANIC.....HYSTERIA.... *tilts head downward* oh look a penny!
- supferrets, on 04/26/2009, -0/+28I dugg you down so I could digg you up twice.
- Bushbasher42, on 04/26/2009, -0/+27THE BEEEES!! NOT THE BEEES!!!!
- slvrbullet87, on 04/26/2009, -0/+27both of the people who sit next to me will. just like they always do
- Jojo1starlight, on 04/26/2009, -1/+27dont forget the mad cows!
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -2/+28Bury then digg twice.
- AndrewDB, on 04/26/2009, -2/+28Digg's down = GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!
- inevitablity, on 04/26/2009, -3/+28If you live in the western world, take some Tamiflu and chill out.
- MadHarvey, on 04/26/2009, -1/+25I had the flu since Thursday, I didn't go into work. I stayed at home and freaked myself out reading all about the swine flu.
good times. -
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