Killer Flu...

[Original202]

A hospital patient from Essex has become the first person without underlying health problems to die after contracting swine flu.

 

I'm taking this a lot more seriously now. It's easy to bury your head in the sand but it isn't just going to go away. I actually think I may have had it as I had a pretty rotten cold a few weeks back (Dark green snot, body aches, shivers, headaches, sore throat etc) and I reckon someone else at work had it too in it's mild form - she never has time off and never has a cold.

 

Thousands of people must have or have had it, but either don't know about it because the symptons are so mild or they just think it's a cold. And there seems to be a lot of people sneezing at the moment due to hayfever which is probably spreading it even more.

 

I hate mass hysteria and overreaction, but this winter could be pretty unpleasant.

[BRAP]

I deffo have it,sore throat,fever,belly ache,cough,and feel like shit even my eyes hurt,I visited the midlands last week and every fucker was coughing,just stayed in for the last 3 days its bad but I have felt worse

[Section_31]

The local PCT has moved to 'treatment' phase rather than containment. The health centre also has a sign outside saying "If you think you have swine flu, don't come in, go home and phone us."

 

I shit you not!

[She Knows It]

I deffo have it,sore throat,fever,belly ache,cough,and feel like shit even my eyes hurt,I visited the midlands last week and every fucker was coughing,just stayed in for the last 3 days its bad but I have felt worse

 

Get on the phone and get your Tamiflu. Hope you're on the mend soon.

[Joe Le Taxi]

Hah I left my school after finishing my last exam now I find out 12 people in my school have it. This all points to me being the cure as fate made me survive by scheduling my exams that way and shit.

[Section_31]

Hah I left my school after finishing my last exam now I find out 12 people in my school have it. This all points to me being the cure as fate made me survive by scheduling my exams that way and shit.

 

They're the lucky ones young'un. They'll have two or three days of snotty nose then they'll have an immunity to it.

 

Meanwhile, the virus will be winging its way around the world via Hong Kong, doing push-ups on steroids and becoming impervious to Tamiflu - then in the Autumn in will swing back our way and hit us all like a truck.

 

That's what happened with the Spanish Flu pandemic, it had a minor wave, then a fucking Tsunami a year later - that's just how Influenza roles.

[Elmyn Noos]

I rang the out of hours surgery the other day with a genuine complaint as I spotted white blistering at the back of my throat indicating the imminent onslaught of tonsilitis which I suffer from intermittently. I was told that my urgently required appointment to get a prescription for antibiotics was likely to be severely delayed because the lines were being jammed with fucking over-reacting pansies whining that they might have swine-flu.

 

Man up you fucks.

[Joe Le Taxi]

They're the lucky ones young'un. They'll have two or three days of snotty nose then they'll have an immunity to it.

 

Meanwhile, the virus will be winging its way around the world via Hong Kong, doing push-ups on steroids and becoming impervious to Tamiflu - then in the Autumn in will swing back our way and hit us all like a truck.

 

That's what happened with the Spanish Flu pandemic, it had a minor wave, then a fucking Tsunami a year later - that's just how Influenza roles.

 

Right time to go get me some swine flu. Is it easier to get than aids? I don't want that again. :whistle:

[Section_31]

Right time to go get me some swine flu. Is it easier to get than aids? I don't want that again. :whistle:

 

Get yourself round to one of your classmate's houses while you've got the chance. People are having 'swine flu parties' so they can get it now while the going's good.

 

If I had it I might actually sell some hugs on Ebay, and kisses if they're female and under 50.

 

Or maybe 60.

[Joe Le Taxi]

Swine Flu parties. A party of getting sneezed on. Well for the girls I guess they get spit-roasted.

[Section_31]

I'd like to catch swine flu from Hannah Spearritt's colon. Ain't no party like a swine flu party.

[Elmyn Noos]

I'd like to catch swine flu from Hannah Spearritt's colon. Ain't no party like a swine flu party.

 

That's a damned good call right there. Hannah Spearitt's colon......mmmmm...

[Antynwa]

A hospital patient from Essex has become the first person without underlying health problems to die after contracting swine flu.

 

I'm taking this a lot more seriously now. It's easy to bury your head in the sand but it isn't just going to go away. I actually think I may have had it as I had a pretty rotten cold a few weeks back (Dark green snot, body aches, shivers, headaches, sore throat etc) and I reckon someone else at work had it too in it's mild form - she never has time off and never has a cold.

 

Thousands of people must have or have had it, but either don't know about it because the symptons are so mild or they just think it's a cold. And there seems to be a lot of people sneezing at the moment due to hayfever which is probably spreading it even more.

 

I hate mass hysteria and overreaction, but this winter could be pretty unpleasant.

 

[Elmyn Noos]

I'd like to catch swine flu from Hannah Spearritt's colon. Ain't no party like a swine flu party.

 

[Dirk]

A couple of decent(ish) videos that you may or may not be interested in. It's impossible to embed the second one which is a video by the US Red Cross on making plans for a flu pandemic.

 

[YOUTUBE]3QwrrhfGT9k[/YOUTUBE]

 

Pandemic Flu, Are You Prepared?

[Anubis]

FAO of Swine Flu.

 

You're shit, and you know you are,

You're shit, and you know you are,

You're shit, and you know you are,

You're shit, and you know you are.

[odris]

Couple of questions.

 

1) Underlying health problems, is that like if i am to get diabetes in later life because my dad has it?

 

2) If i caught it and was cured would i be able to catch swine flu again?

[Elmyn Noos]

Swine flu, for fuck's sake.

 

Has anyone got any stats comparing deaths from swine flu this year compared to deaths from normal flu that doesn't make the news?

[Dirk]

Here is some info on how flu viruses mutate.

 

Antigenic drift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Antigenic shift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Dirk]

Swine flu, for fuck's sake.

 

Has anyone got any stats comparing deaths from swine flu this year compared to deaths from normal flu that doesn't make the news?

 

Pandemic flu spreads in waves, the first wave is invariably mild. The 1918 Spanish Flu had a mild first wave, with the second wave being particularly fatal, with 50 million people dying. There was 1/6th of the population we have now, so that's the equivalent of 300 million people dying if a pandemic took hold with a similar mortality rate (Approx 5% of the entire population rather than those that contract it). As the virus mutates, it can increase its virulence, this strain is very contagious, scientists initially thought it would find it difficult to spread during the summer, they were wrong. An highly contagious, highly virulent variant, which H1N1 could become is not something we should take lightly.

Edited July 10, 2009 by Dirk
Clear up stats.

[Section_31]

Couple of questions.

 

1) Underlying health problems, is that like if i am to get diabetes in later life because my dad has it?

 

I think it's things like chronic breathing problems etc, things which have already hammered your immune system, and then Flu finishes you off.

 

 

2) If i caught it and was cured would i be able to catch swine flu again?

 

Once you've caught and defeated swine flu you have a Rodimus Prime moment.

 

[YOUTUBE]yPBrxQy8cQc[/YOUTUBE]

 

 

Possibly.

[odris]

Well i may be ok.

[Anubis]

Once you've caught and defeated swine flu you have a Rodimus Prime moment.

 

Hopefully minus the dodgy backing song. Otherwise I think I'd rather Swine Flu finish me off than suffer that.

[Mr T]

I don't think we're ever going to see another election in this country.

 

The Civil Contingency Act will be swinging its way into action. Then the elite can impose martial law.

 

Then we'll get a World Government to sort this shit out. BLISS. Welcome to Eurasia.

[Jennings]

...

 

That's what happened with the Spanish Flu pandemic, it had a minor wave, then a fucking Tsunami a year later - that's just how Influenza roles.

 

Wouldn't we have a vaccine though now, in time for the second wave?