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- inactive, on 05/25/2009, -0/+32OH NOES!! HAMTHRAX!!
- superbobd, on 05/25/2009, -1/+24Wasn't the swine flu hysteria over ... like two weeks ago?
- lead2thehead, on 05/25/2009, -0/+10Oh no! That means there's only a 99% chance that they'll survive!
- ruarctb, on 05/25/2009, -0/+9Probably with a soldier being deployed?
- kaelyiesta, on 05/25/2009, -1/+8Fuzzybeard isn't completely wrong. The interesting thing about 1918 was that just like now, the swine flu was fueled by war. It was documented amongst returning soldiers barracked in close quarters, and it spread rapidly amongst this group of susceptible men, who were in very weak and in poor health(the conditions of war weren't so cozy for americans as they are today). With the soldiers as a weak spot the flu gained a strong foothold and began to infect people in numbers that never would have happened otherwise. Still, only the physically weak were in danger, as the illness peaked and the rest of the population self immunized. The dead consisted mainly of the previously infirm, babies, old, and people living in squalor packed closely together. Certain slums saw huge infection rates while small towns didn't even see one case.
With the general increase in hygiene, the odds of this taking a hold in the general population is much smaller than it's 1918 counterpart. A more accurate comparison would be the 1976 swine flu outbreak, supposedly started among soldiers again. That time the flu did not find any people in poor enough conditions and did nothing other than to scare politicians into offering to vaccinate people en mass, which ended up killing more people due to reactions to the vaccine.
Point to all this: practice general hygiene and ignore the hype. Consider medical treatment if you have very young children or you are very old who become sick but otherwise don't let fear mongering rule your reason. - kelmaster1, on 05/25/2009, -0/+7Stupid title and this article is minor.
"' All the 18 soldiers have left Kuwait. They had normal symptoms of the disease and were given the necessary medication'"
Really sounds scary doesn't it?
Buried - Tarl, on 05/25/2009, -0/+6People can like fly in these aluminum tubes. All over the world even.
- inactive, on 05/25/2009, -0/+5Until Kuwait needs a little help again...
- Hearron, on 05/25/2009, -2/+7Sure the V.A will ignore this too.
- lead2thehead, on 05/25/2009, -1/+5That was his point, genius. It's no different from the regular flu.
- superbobd, on 05/25/2009, -1/+5As time goes on, they're finding that it is more and more simliar to the same ***** flu that comes up every year.
And I highly doubt the similarities between this and the 1918 pandemic are "breathtaking". The flu originates somewhere, it spreads throughout the world, and then people die. - roebeet, on 05/25/2009, -0/+4The only similarities so far are that they both started in March, and that some of the deaths were young, otherwise healthy, adults. It could re-surge in a mutated and deadlier form (as it did in 1918), or we may never see it again - there's no way to know.
So, given that my chances of getting killed in my car are much higher, I'm not going to worry about it. - retral, on 05/25/2009, -1/+4STFU, please.
- waydee, on 05/25/2009, -0/+3what?
- tomasmarc, on 05/25/2009, -0/+2Why then monitoring spread of breast cancer or ordinary flu is not on front page of digg everyday? Overmonitoring = hysteria.
- gsxraddict, on 05/25/2009, -1/+318 soldiers have been removed - too little too late now. I am sure they've infected someone else.
There are thousands of contractors coming in and out of the base all day, which could spread it to Kuwaiti citizens.
Hope its been contained though, because I'll be there very soon; and I don't want that *****. - raybury, on 05/25/2009, -2/+4Reported on BBC as reported by AFP as told by an unnamed Kuwaiti health spokesman. Uh huh. Watch for this "fact" to be used against the American military's use of Kuwait as a staging area.
- wafflesomd, on 05/25/2009, -0/+2And this matters why?
- tomasmarc, on 05/25/2009, -0/+2Ok, from now on I'm going to bury any story on digg that has words 'swine' and 'flu' in its topic. Even if it's about swine blood curing the usual flu.
I know it's not much, but if we all contribute, we might end the overrated hysteria of the overrated disease. - techutopian, on 05/27/2009, -0/+1I am talking about this recent report that flu vaccine actually increases flu risk in Children in this recent study.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/09051 ...
It indicates that the risk of disease is actually increased by vaccination not really reduced. - alcoholio, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1Poor men. Being sick and far from your family is hell. I hope they get ok.
- snyper256, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1I wonder what they were injected with before deployment.
- fuzzybeard, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1Be safe over there in the Big Sandbox. [salute]
- fuzzybeard, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1Article 99; it'll bite you in the ass every time.
- theturt1e, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1Over half the popluation in Kuwat are foreign nationals, many from the Philipines and India. They also import most of their goods. This means that there is no way to know how the swine flu got brought in to Kuwait.
- inactive, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1can't we just shut the **** up about this already? OH NO, 12000 people infected, 86 dead, this is a PANDEMIC! lets give out vaccines so that we can kill more people than the disease itself!
- refriaire, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1So, less than 1% mortality. Now I'm scared.
- ttam, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1PANIC!!!
- Meocross, on 05/25/2009, -1/+2Im shocked it even managed to infect such a remote and dynamic area.
- Kate1240, on 07/30/2009, -0/+1I didn't notice the American MSM reporting this.. Did anyone else?
This is terrible! The troops need our support. - deathmatch, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1What if its being intentionally being spread, to legitimize their claims. lol
this is just another boogey man to avoid while you watch tv. - jeremymccurdy, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1So people are still worrying about this? Jesus ***** christ, it didn't cause the world to end. It's just another flu, no worse than any of the other ones that kill people off daily.
- theturt1e, on 05/25/2009, -1/+1Many Kuwaiti people fail to realize that without the US military over in Kuwait that their economy would have issues. Much like the base closures happening locally in the US is causing. Yes we rely on oil and they make good money off of it, but the little man (and some of the really rich) rely on the US military for work. There are hundreds of non US contractors working on each base. Much of the food that the troops eat comes from the Kuwaiti economy. The bases pay the Kuwaiti government leases for the lad they occupy. Water is trucked in to the remote bases. US Contractors working on the bases are often time housed off base in rented Kuwaiti homes. Vehicles are leased from Kuwaiti companies. Most the Kuwaiti people know (and hate to admint it) they NEED the US military, their economy relies to much on it.
- fuzzybeard, on 05/25/2009, -2/+2Why? I'm not trying to incite panic. If you look at the course that the 1918 pandemic took and compared it to the course that the H1N1 outbreak *appears* to be taking; the similarities are breathtakingly similar.
- telomeres, on 05/28/2009, -0/+0When pigs flew.
- rcalsav, on 05/25/2009, -0/+0Again, the press talks about swine flu like it is killing more than anything else. Compare it to the numbers of American deaths over there, and you will see that the flu is not significant... at all! There are more important things to worry about in this life...
- telomeres, on 05/28/2009, -0/+0I think most pandemics and fake pandemics start the same way. It's probably still too early to tell. He's not saying OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE, he's just making a comparison.
- theturt1e, on 05/25/2009, -0/+0What the hell does that have to do with it? EVERY person going to the Middle East for the US Government longer then (I believe) 60 days is required to have a full battery of shots. The flu shot is but one of them. They get them roughly a week to 4 days before they travel. This is a fact, I went though this before coming over for my contract a few months ago. The swine flu is far different then the normal flu so I highly doubt the the vaccine would do any good.
If you are trying to imply that the US Army is injecting them with something other then a valid flu vaccine your are a moron. However if I miss read your post I apologize, please try to be more clear on you posts. - Thinkbig12, on 05/25/2009, -0/+0OMGZZXZ
- Aeron, on 05/26/2009, -1/+1the only people that need to worry about swine flu are the same people that need to worry about normal flu, it's a non issue for the average person.
- inactive, on 05/25/2009, -1/+1http://digg.com/health/US_soldiers_struck_by_swine ...
...? - 87Knox, on 05/25/2009, -3/+2I like how the only way to tell it apart from regular flu is to test it.
- SpinningHead, on 05/25/2009, -2/+1Monitoring the spread of the disease /= hysteria.
- charlietuna, on 05/25/2009, -4/+3Terrific, the infidels are bring the decidedly non-halal "swine" flu into the Mideast. There will be more protests.
- lead2thehead, on 05/25/2009, -4/+3And why shouldn't they? It's less serious than the regular flu. They probably ignore stubbed toes too.
- heystoopid, on 05/25/2009, -5/+4Oh no the "Smithfield Corporate Killer Virus" is now in all corners of this earth , we are doomed I tell you , run for the hills !
- techutopian, on 05/25/2009, -2/+1I wonder how many of those troops received Vaccines for flu lately? Likely 100% IMHO
- twiztidsinz, on 05/25/2009, -4/+2I like how you don't have any clue what it is.
It -IS- the flu, the 'swine' part is just what animal it came from before jumping the species barrier to humans. - knisis, on 05/25/2009, -6/+3Okok, question: How the ***** did it get to kuwait???
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