Swine flu pandemic fears

[nunthewiser]

anyone here read "the stand " by stephen king?.......

sure is rather spooky the description of the city as above

 

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swine flu deaths rise to 149

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021483.stm

 

[Sean K]

swine flu deaths rise to 149

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021483.stm

Suspected swine flu.

a health minister has revealed that the toll of suspected swine flu deaths has risen to 149.

The vast majority of those suspected to have caught this haven't even needed hospitalisation from what I can make out.

And the strain that has been tested outside of Mexico City hasn't been as severe for some reason. US health staff have flown to Mexico City to try and find out why.

 

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after recieving my latest infraction, i now agree with you kennas that the flu is not a concern and encourage you to go to mexico......soon. lol


i thought the comsec hacker, personal security alert was in need of its own title, for obvious reasons....

 

[UBIQUITOUS]

anyone here read "the stand " by stephen king?.......

sure is rather spooky the description of the city as above

..or Camus' 'The Plague'. Although that involved rats maybe it will mutate into swinorodent flu.

On a serious note, I am preempting government ineptitude indealing with this and so would like my own supply of Relenza. Anyone know whether I can just buy some over the counter at any Pharmacy in Oz?

 

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ring your doc, tell him you are going overseas and need some anti-viral. get the script and find a chemist that has some. do it quick, you arent the only one with the idea...

 

[shag]

they rnt worried about this strain so much, but worried that the more people it touches, the more likely it will mutate into a real nasty version.
it being communicaive between people and its base genes r the issue. it will likely quieten down for a bit then maybe rear its nasty head again if we are unluckly.
at least the world has responded reasonably quickly and efficiently this time.

 

[UBIQUITOUS]

ring your doc, tell him you are going overseas and need some anti-viral. get the script and find a chemist that has some. do it quick, you arent the only one with the idea...

Haha Metric..I take my hat off to you. Doommonger number 1!

 

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doomonger.....NUMBER 1..!! lol

or just the best informed..?

well, you did ask how to get some anti-viral. now you shoot the messenger.

 

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here is todays google map of flu cases..http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...0649,-116.139221&spn=151.498363,358.59375&z=1

 

[Sean K]

doomonger.....NUMBER 1..!! lol

or just the best informed..?

You plow a lot of fields metric, but so far you have displayed an inability to identify the wheat from the chaff.

Still waiting for Reinhardt's armageddon day.

I suppose he'll claim this Babe flu thing is it.

 

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http://www.enterprisecorruption.com/ 14 days he has on his site. thats 14 left to go. but if he is right, of course, YOU WILL CLAIM, it was bird flu that done it?

please point out where ive not sorted properly....?

 

[Sean K]

http://www.enterprisecorruption.com/ 14 days he has on his site. thats 14 left to go. but if he is right, of course, YOU WILL CLAIM, it was bird flu that done it?

please point out where ive not sorted properly....?

Reinhardt is shaff metric.

Do you know what his latest claim is yet?

Any hints?

 

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chaff is YOUR OPINION...

latest claim...no i dont. just has the 14 days to go on his site. and like it or not, has has made many correct predictions.

also, i was barred from a web site spawned by rs 'deciples' because i dared question his motives and other stuff. but i still think he has something to offer..

 

[Prospector]

ring your doc, tell him you are going overseas and need some anti-viral. get the script and find a chemist that has some. do it quick, you arent the only one with the idea...

Actually, I did exactly that the last time bird flu was running rampant, supposedly. We were travelling to China for work. I did manage to get some Relenza from the US. Even with a script there were no pharmacies in Australia that could supply it. It is out of date now, but suspect the shelf life is longer than stated. It will be too late now, the Govt took control of all supplies a few years ago.

But how many people die in the normal flu season? Isnt it in the hundreds in Australia alone? Or is there more to this than we are being told.

 

[shag]

last time they were not ready, and seemingly tamiflu is very difficult to synthesis and ramp up production. this time or next time there will be loads of the stuff, esp in aus where they make the alternative plus vacines.
but even last time it wasnt overly difficult to get the stuff, and the drug and pharmacy companies loved it, a hundred buks from each punter.
they seem to prefere to use tamiflu for this outbreak too. its easy to get with a script.

 

[Sean K]

But how many people die in the normal flu season? Isnt it in the hundreds in Australia alone? Or is there more to this than we are being told.

Worldwide it's probably 100s of 1000s.

From Wiki:

The annual human flu in the U.S. "results in approximately 36,000 deaths and more than 200,000 hospitalizations each year. In addition to this human toll, influenza is annually responsible for a total cost of over $10 billion in the U.S." [4].

So the 150 so far is a drop in the bucket.

 

[moXJO]

Wonder if this will cause enough panic for the next leg down on the dow.
No US citizens have died from this flu yet. Seems a bit of fear pushing by media at this stage.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25397421-23109,00.html

Of the 40 cases, we are only aware of one individual who was hospitalised, and all people who have been infected and were sick have recovered," Mr Besser said. Those affected ranged from seven to 54 years old.

 

[juddy]

Yesterday, my doc refused to give me a script to cover my family. Apparently had been refusing similar requests all day. Is this a directive from above?

 

[Sean K]

Yesterday, my doc refused to give me a script to cover my family. Apparently had been refusing similar requests all day. Is this a directive from above?

Probably because it's just not required.

At this point the media are just sucking it for all it's worth. It's selling newspapers right now.

Hope I'm right.