BF2S Forums New Swine-Avian-Human Flu. Is this the Apocalypse?

262 Confirmed cases, another 2500+ *possible* cases.

152 reported dead, but only *26* are confirmed to have died from the influenza subtype H1N1 virus (the swine flu strain)

Reports of infections (again, most arent confirmed) in 25 countries. Mexico is the ONLY country with ANY deaths, confirmed or otherwise.

The SARS pandemic of 2002-2003 (around 8 months) killed around 800 worldwide from around 8000 reported cases.

Meanwhile Malaria, TB, and Hepatitis continue to kill 1-3 million people each, every year.

We can all thank the sensationalist media of the US for whipping up the ignorant masses for us. Few people die in Mexico (thats never happened?) and a few in the US have some diarrhea and the sniffles. Gimme a break, I cant even watch the news anymore without every channel having some outrageously overblown story.

Oh and the Spanish Flu killed somewhere between 20-100 million people and spread all over the world, even to the arctic and remote pacific islands. Thats double the number dead from WWI. Its estimated that it infected 1 BILLION people, HALF of the Earth's population at the time. Experts believe it may have killed more people than the Bubonic Plague (Black Death). Now THAT is a pandemic.

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:

Oh and the Spanish Flu killed somewhere between 20-100 million people and spread all over the world, even to the arctic and remote pacific islands. Thats double the number dead from WWI. Its estimated that it infected 1 BILLION people, HALF of the Earth's population at the time. Experts believe it may have killed more people than the Bubonic Plague (Black Death). Now THAT is a pandemic.

The Spanish Flu took a year or so to kill all those millions.  We're just on month one or so.

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:

Meanwhile Malaria, TB, and Hepatitis continue to kill 1-3 million people each, every year.

Not in First World countries.

Last edited by Ilocano (2009-04-28 13:02:46)

The good old regular non-swine flu kills thousands every year.  Malaria kills millions

gg media, another "pandemic" whipped up to earn the ratings...

Ilocano wrote:

S.Lythberg wrote:

The good old regular non-swine flu kills thousands every year.  Malaria kills millions

gg media, another "pandemic" whipped up to earn the ratings...

The regular flu kills mostly the weak, elderly and the very young.  The swine flu is mostly killing otherwise strong and healthy folks.

http://www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=Sci … okineStorm

strong and healthy by who's standards?  no fatalities here, and simply living in Mexico is enough to seriously compromise your immune system. 

The media loves to liken these various illnesses to actual pandemics, but there is typically very little scientific basis behind it all

You can keep a idea on where the outbreaks are by going here as well. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/200 … uUSA_N.htm

Last edited by Obiwan (2009-04-28 16:08:53)

Spark wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

tamiflu ..doit
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&e … p;ct=title

Modern Medicine wins again.

We've been lucky that this paticular H1N1 strain doesn't have resistance to our main antivirals.

But I still think we REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY need to pour money in to developing new antivirals and new anti-biotics. Because if we get an H1N1 strain which (like this one and the 1918 one) produces a cytokine storm, is as virulent as normal AND is resistant, then we're in deep.

Antibiotics won't do anything for the swine flu (or any other virus)...only the secondary conditions.

We have relatively few truly effective antiviral drugs, period. It's not limited to this strain (or any strain of flu).

Haha today's xkcd pretty much sums up this whole situation

Google maps now has a 2009 Swine Flu (H1N1) Outbreak Map. I didn't try to embed it because its a pita slow upload. I think a lot of sites are embedding it and its making it really slow.

http://tinyurl.com/swinemap09

-CARNIFEX-[LOC] wrote:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jc_pijXYi6E50wDepameI2ZTf9iAD97S6LR00

Egypt is now killing all of the pigs in their country to "prevent" swine flu. 

/facepalm.

It's always good to reaffirm that people who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground in terms of scientifically-derived preventative measures are in charge of such things in most countries around the world.

I better check CNBC to see if pork bellies took a hit
Cheap bacon yahhh

Kmarion wrote:

-CARNIFEX-[LOC] wrote:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jc_pijXYi6E50wDepameI2ZTf9iAD97S6LR00

Egypt is now killing all of the pigs in their country to "prevent" swine flu. 

/facepalm.

It's always good to reaffirm that people who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground in terms of scientifically-derived preventative measures are in charge of such things in most countries around the world.

Damn.. good thing they didn't go through with calling it the Mexican Flu.

Don't give the patriotic looney border minutemen any ideas

DBBrinson1 wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

-CARNIFEX-[LOC] wrote:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jc_pijXYi6E50wDepameI2ZTf9iAD97S6LR00

Egypt is now killing all of the pigs in their country to "prevent" swine flu. 

/facepalm.

It's always good to reaffirm that people who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground in terms of scientifically-derived preventative measures are in charge of such things in most countries around the world.

Damn.. good thing they didn't go through with calling it the Mexican Flu.

Isn't Mexico considered Central America?

No. But you did make me double check.

Left 4 Dead more like I hope, that way it makes me feel like all that time playing it was worthwhile

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Apparently patient zero is A Five Year Old Kid from Mexico whose mother says that she thinks he contracted it from a nearby pig farm.

I have a new theory on the swine/avian/human mixed up flu bug.

Some Mexican drug lord must have heard that feeding pigs the bodies of your victims is a good way to make the evidence disappear. So the pigs eat some human with the flu, the pigs are fed other dead amimals like chickens and other garbage. The pigs have swine flu, and swine flu mixes with human flu and avian flu and whalla mutant swine flu. The kid plays near the farm gets contaminated with teh mutant strain and pandemic

Last edited by Diesel_dyk (2009-04-29 13:30:48)