Swine flu pandemic fears

[UBIQUITOUS]

Got me there UBIQUITOUS, here are the links, UK swine flu deaths reach 29: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8154419.stm

Pandemic threat worse than Terror: http://news.aol.co.uk/pandemic-threat-worse-than-terror/article/20090716113640881432565

I would say that the mortality figures will be nowhere near those. The take up on the swineflu vaccination will be much much higher than the regular flu vaccination. I expect this will result in an eradication of this strain within a couple of years.

Hey, i'm sounding like an expert now, but am really just guessing.

 

[spooly74]

Is that taking into account the vaccination which will be rolled out there next month?

Swine flu vaccine still months away, says global health chief.
Head of World Health Organisation casts doubt on government's claim that first stocks will arrive in August

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/14/swine-flu-vaccination-who-chan

As others have suggested, the stats for those who actually have the flu are skewed. But a mortality rate of between 0.5%-1% doesn't seem to far off the mark for those who need hospitalisation.

 

[Happy]

There will be definitely more survivers, as blood can be oxygenated outside the body, so we are only limited by number of machines.

 

[spooly74]

There will be definitely more survivers, as blood can be oxygenated outside the body, so we are only limited by number of machines.

That's what I was wondering. How many spares are available?
The number of hospitalisations due to swine flu doubled to 200 in a week.

 

[noirua]

"Flu risk for indigenous people": http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8132069.stm

 

[noirua]

The BBC have announced a rise from the 55,000 cases of Swine flu reported last week to over 100,000 cases this week, in the UK. 840 are in hospital, and 63 people are seriously ill in intensive care and 31 have died (figure expected to be raised later today). The highest number of cases concern younger people under 14 years of age.

 

[Mindsphere]

I would say that the mortality figures will be nowhere near those. The take up on the swineflu vaccination will be much much higher than the regular flu vaccination. I expect this will result in an eradication of this strain within a couple of years.

Hey, i'm sounding like an expert now, but am really just guessing.

There is always the possibility for mutations to render the vaccines ineffective, which is what happens each flu season I believe.. :/

 

[Calliope]

It's midsummer in Britain and yet they are copping it worse than we are in midwinter.


http://www.smh.com.au/world/britain...ousands-rush-for-treatment-20090724-dw6y.html

Britain battles flu panic as thousands rush for treatment

July 25, 2009
SWINE flu panic has gripped Britain, with a dramatic spread of the virus sending a new online prescription service into meltdown. Infection cases have doubled to 100,000 in just a week.

The new National Pandemic Flu Service, established to provide internet users with Tamiflu scripts without seeing a doctor, crashed within minutes of going live on Thursday. It was receiving an estimated 2600 hits a second and 9.3 million hits an hour, forcing the Government to immediately announce increased capacity for the site.

The British chief medical officer defined children under 14 as "super spreaders" as 100,000 people became infected with the H1N1 virus in the seven days to Sunday compared with 55,000 infections the week before.

Significantly, fewer elderly people appear to be succumbing than was initially predicted, suggesting they have developed a level of immunity.

 

[jackson8]

hi all

sounds like most of the cases where people have actually died is due to having other underlying health issues

i have a 21 year old who has been diagnosed with the swine flu , confirmed with blood test ...........henceforth his girlfriend and another friend who they live with have all been diagnosed with same

each of them have presented systems for one or two days then have pretty well recovered .....knock on wood.......not too excessive lots of coughing and sore throats but not bedridden.

my point being i dont think we need to be too hysterical about the issue just need to safeguard those of the public who are in high risk categories eg. the young, the old and the ill

 

[windy]

http://dprogram.net/2009/04/25/do-not-take-a-swine-flu-vaccine/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/12000-u-s-children-to-be-swine-flu-vaccine-guinea-pigs.html
DYOR if you want to know the truth. The truth will set you free.
Be utterly afraid. The powers that be have created this health scare for their own sick personal and political reasons.

 

[spooly74]

my point being i dont think we need to be too hysterical about the issue just need to safeguard those of the public who are in high risk categories eg. the young, the old and the ill

It is not just the old and very young who are dying.

DYOR if you want to know the truth. The truth will set you free.
Be utterly afraid.

Gob$hite

 

[Calliope]

Human to pig transmission of the virus will naturally turn some alarmists off eating pork.

The upside is that pork will be cheaper.

 

[nunthewiser]

is currently on lockdown at home also because i have suspected swine flu

i can confirm things aint pretty

crook as a bleedin dog

hence posting on near on every thread that pops up

at least this way i can share the suffering , the longer im crook the more u have to put up with my ramblings

aaahhhhh choooooooooooooo

 

[Timmy]

is currently on lockdown at home also because i have suspected swine flu

Get well soon nun!

source

 

[nunthewiser]

awwwww thankyou very much timmy

 

[2020hindsight]

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post #267
"you lill bastard, you've killed us all" - that one's a classic.

Still it's interesting that the act of kissing/ licking the pig's nose can transfer the flue either boy-to-pig, or pig-to-boy.

PS Next thing you know, some lady scientist working with pig IVF will probably get pregnant

 

[Timmy]

Report just published:

Swine flu's potency revealed in report

Here, we present the first six cases of H1N1 influenza ... in which patients required admission to intensive care in Australia," a group of doctors write in the Medical Journal of Australia.

The article is informative and manages to be so without being alarmist.

It concludes:
The doctors note the swine flu was a "benign disease" but that it could lead to severe respiratory complications.

"In our series, prompt diagnosis and intensive therapy was associated with favourable outcomes," they also write.

 

[nunthewiser]

Report just published:

Swine flu's potency revealed in report

Here, we present the first six cases of H1N1 influenza ... in which patients required admission to intensive care in Australia," a group of doctors write in the Medical Journal of Australia.

The article is informative and manages to be so without being alarmist.

It concludes:
The doctors note the swine flu was a "benign disease" but that it could lead to severe respiratory complications.

"In our series, prompt diagnosis and intensive therapy was associated with favourable outcomes," they also write.

thanks timmy

i actually went to bed feeling fine and woke up having an asthma attack( i suffer from asthma but very minor and very irregularly) also massive fever and coughing my guts up


my normal asthma medication did not fix the situation so went to the ER



i was put straight onto a nebulizer until i could breath a lil better again

i was given tami flu , more ventolin , a script for augmentin ? and some panadeine, i also hired a nebulizer machine from the hospital and sent home being told " do not go out coughing on ppl "......... i haven't actually been told i have swine flu , i haven't actually even been told theres anything wrong .

i already had a " normal" flu jab so it cant be normal flu can it ?

just a suspected swine so far .............cant be a confirmed one ......... makes for scary reading


anyways.......as im typing this i,m starting to think of skimpy barmaids , countermeals and loud music so i guess this " flu" will have to be over and done with by wednesday lunchtime at the latest






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[Cartman]

Sorry u r not well Nun --- perhaps we should send a few "sisters" round to cheer u up -------:whip

oops -- sorry, wrong convent ----

proabably best u just get some sleep :goodnight

 

[2020hindsight]

recommend you go get some oinkment nun
:bricks1: