Swine Flu
Apr 29th 2009, 8:29 am
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Apr 29th 2009, 8:30 am
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Re: Swine Flu
On another note, was talking to a collegue who's family member is a nurse and she said there were 4000 deaths last year from normal "flu", and it hardly got any press.....so far the death toll is around 160 for Swine Flu and thats is getting sensational press coverage.....something has to give right?
Mmmmm tis true - how do you class something as an epidemic or pandemic or whatever we are two levels away from it being called. What I mean to say is - why are people so worried about swine flu when normal flu is just as bad?
Is it the percentage of people that have contracted it that have died? - is it how quick people have died that have caught it? - what?
Apr 29th 2009, 8:30 am
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you pixels merge into one over time.
Apr 29th 2009, 8:38 am
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Apr 29th 2009, 8:52 am
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Re: Swine Flu
I do. I was only thinking last night over dinner, "I wonder why Largo is returning to Canada". How shocked i found myself to see you'd posted this only hours later. Maybe i'm telepathetic 
In all seriousness[COLOR="red"]..........where did you get the info from that says it [/COLOR]originated in Canada?
In all seriousness[COLOR="red"]..........where did you get the info from that says it [/COLOR]originated in Canada?
How very kind of you to think about me. I can be snarky too!
It did NOT originate in Canada. It originated in Mexico. Just as the 9/11 problem did NOT originate in Canada, though the US pointed a finger in our direction . After much investigation, it was proven without a doubt, that the 9/11 terrorists accessed the US using US planes and US documents. For the US an ' inconvenient' truth.
Recently, the US is again beefing up security and demanding that all land travellers using the US/Canadian border whether they be US or Canadain citizens have passports, to prove their identity. In the past a driver's licence or a birth certificate was enough. When questioned on the reason for this, the person in charge of the US Home-Security , and also the defeated Republican Presidential candidate both re-hashed the erronious allegation that the 9/11 terrorists made their way to the US via Canada.They also suggested that the border with Canada was more of a problem than that with the border with Mexico
So , when the news is fresh I suggested that we declare that Canada is NOT to blame for the flu' apparently now rampant nor did it originate here, so that in the future Canada can not be blamed for that too.
Unfortunately, truth can be twisted to suit one's agenda.And many people really believe what 'those in authority' tell them, true or not, and don't bother to check .
I hope this answers your post el_richo.
Apr 29th 2009, 8:57 am
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Apr 29th 2009, 8:58 am
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Re: Swine Flu
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/0...co-090425.html
My daughter says that someone in her School just got back from Mexico
(there are two confirmed cases in Alberta), and my Mum called me today to see if we're all ok and said that a School has been closed over there as a result. Hope me OH gets back OK from his jaunts around the US.
Apr 29th 2009, 9:05 am
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Re: Swine Flu
The reason that this flu virus is receiving so much attention is that it is a novel strain that has not been seen in humans before, so there is no natural immunity and no previous virus that has contained a vaccine for it.
There is no vaccine, though the fact that it *hasn't* been seen in humans means that the antivirals work well - there is no resistance that's been built up.
And the virus has killed many young and presumably healthy children and adults, as was seen in the 1918 epidemic. The child who died in Houston was a Mexican national who was visiting the border city of Brownsville, Texas when s/he fell ill and was hospitalised. Later the child was transferred to Houston after the disease worsened.
So according to the press - our economy is like 1929, and the flu is like 1918. Anyone for a drink?
There is no vaccine, though the fact that it *hasn't* been seen in humans means that the antivirals work well - there is no resistance that's been built up.
And the virus has killed many young and presumably healthy children and adults, as was seen in the 1918 epidemic. The child who died in Houston was a Mexican national who was visiting the border city of Brownsville, Texas when s/he fell ill and was hospitalised. Later the child was transferred to Houston after the disease worsened.
So according to the press - our economy is like 1929, and the flu is like 1918. Anyone for a drink?
Apr 29th 2009, 9:06 am
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Apr 29th 2009, 9:10 am
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Apr 29th 2009, 9:13 am
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Re: Swine Flu
Mmmmm tis true - how do you class something as an epidemic or pandemic or whatever we are two levels away from it being called. What I mean to say is - why are people so worried about swine flu when normal flu is just as bad?
Is it the percentage of people that have contracted it that have died? - is it how quick people have died that have caught it? - what?
Is it the percentage of people that have contracted it that have died? - is it how quick people have died that have caught it? - what?
Epidemic is a local increase in the incidence of a disease. Pandemic is when is spreads further, ie across a continent, or the world. No necessarily meaning a huge number of cases, just significantly more than is usual.
Here you go, a little light reading
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cpip-pclcpi/s02-eng.php
and
http://www.northumberlandcaretrust.n...%20leaflet.pdf
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Apr 29th 2009, 9:19 am
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Re: Swine Flu
Because it's usually a new virus that fewer people have immunity to.
Epidemic is a local increase in the incidence of a disease. Pandemic is when is spreads further, ie across a continent, or the world. No necessarily meaning a huge number of cases, just significantly more than is usual.
Here you go, a little light reading
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cpip-pclcpi/s02-eng.php
and
http://www.northumberlandcaretrust.n...%20leaflet.pdf
Epidemic is a local increase in the incidence of a disease. Pandemic is when is spreads further, ie across a continent, or the world. No necessarily meaning a huge number of cases, just significantly more than is usual.
Here you go, a little light reading
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cpip-pclcpi/s02-eng.php
and
http://www.northumberlandcaretrust.n...%20leaflet.pdf
