How concerned are you about the Swine Flu?

duca

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To be honest I was more worried about the tainted meat scandal last year and that was mostly because I had to throw away all my lunch meat, which really sucked Log in to see images!

Posted On: 04/30/2009 12:00AM

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twotowner Posted:

Wake me up when an actual threat to my health, such as the zombie apocalypse, is coming for me.Log in to see images!

Posted On: 04/30/2009 12:03AM

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Sneaky27

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AntiRules187 Posted:

twotowner Posted:

Wake me up when an actual threat to my health, such as the zombie apocalypse, is coming for me.

Will do. I live about a mile and a half from the CDC, so I should know about the ZA first or close to it.

Posted On: 04/30/2009 12:09AM

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Jim McPerson

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I couldn’t care less. Bird flu came and went and so will this.

And even if it doesn’t, I still couldn’t care less. AIDS has been with us for, what? 4 decades?

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My uncle and cousin both have it (confirmed); they live in Phoenix, Arizona.

Posted On: 05/02/2009 3:39PM

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My uncle and cousin both have it (confirmed); they live in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Posted On: 05/02/2009 3:54PM

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SIG-ENABLING-MOCK CONGLER Posted:

Not worried about it. Don’t we already have a cure for it?

~~hey i dont wanna bother quoting two posts but this dumb **** thinks you can cure a virus.~~

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Posted On: 05/02/2009 4:07PM

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iIRZ Posted:

(trolling omitted)..thinks you can cure a virus.

wikipedia Posted:

Smallpox is an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor.

In the early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year. As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year. After successful vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in December 1979. To this day, smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been completely eradicated.

I don’t think you should react so strongly to Sig’s thoughts. Data can easily be misunderstood.

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Big Bang

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Wylin Posted:

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wikipedia Posted:

Antiviral drugs are a clbum of medication used specifically for treating viral infections. Like antibiotics for bacteria, specific antivirals are used for specific viruses. Unlike antibiotics, however, antiviral drugs do not destroy the virus, they only inhibit their development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_drugs

I suppose it really depends on how you define “cure”

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iIRZ

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~~no its not trolling he is dumb as **** if he thinks you can cure a virus~~

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markchd

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Since most of the public schools in my area have closed, I’m a bit concerned.

Influenza can have a not insignificant mortality rate ranging from about .01% to 2.5%. (Poorly sourced statistic, FYI.) The real concern should be that many, many people could contract H1N1. If you contract H1N1, the odds of you personally dying from it are about 1 in 40 at worst, personal health factors notwithstanding . The problem is that if your office of about 100 pbumes around an easily communicable flu with a mortality rate of about 2.0% at least one of you is statistically likely to die.

Anti-virals can help in the early stages, but supplies are not unlimited. As to whether this flu will spread far and fast, it’s hard to say. We can take preventative measures, but we can’t (and shouldn’t)hunker down in our homes until it subsides.

I’m trying to avoid unnecessary risks, but I’m living my life.

My reaction in short: Wash your hands and don’t go to work sick, people.

EDIT: rookie typo.

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CaptainDDL

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Not worried about it at all, to be honest.

Posted On: 05/02/2009 5:56PM

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iIRZ Posted:

no its not trolling he is dumb as **** if he thinks you can cure a virus

Meant treatment. Funny how you’re risking a ban to point out some thing that could of had multiple meanings in the context it was used.

Posted On: 05/02/2009 5:59PM

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cya

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Hey remember SARS?

Or Bird Flu?

Oh wait, they were publicised by the media and then ended up doing less damage than anyone would have thought.

My advice: Stop being manipulated by the media.

Posted On: 05/02/2009 6:01PM

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baou30

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I lol'd a little. :bigbarf:

I’m unconcerned, also, I’m nuking Tennesee. Log in to see images!

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i don’t really care, but i found out today that they shut down my old school because of this (senseless) panic.

Posted On: 05/02/2009 6:52PM

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Vageena Davis

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Not worried at all until actual flu season starts in September/October and then I’ll be as worried about swine flu as I am about every other flu. Slightly worried.

Posted On: 05/04/2009 3:15PM

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Chawin Posted:

Hey remember SARS?
Or Bird Flu?
Oh wait, they were publicised by the media and then ended up doing less damage than anyone would have thought.
My advice: Stop being manipulated by the media.

THIS.

Today i got a very interesting email about this.

Aparently swine flu came in a very “convenient” time for the mexican goverment, since posesion of small doses of some drugs are now legal, there has been 0 talk about the financial state of the country on the news and mr president calderon recently accepted some loan or some **** (sorry i don’t understand economic) from US AGAIN, making the external dept bigger and making all the situation ****tier for Mexico.

But, everything they talk in the news is flu this flu that for a disease there’s treatment for.

Posted On: 05/04/2009 3:38PM

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Cheese Deluxe

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Getting close to me. D:

Posted On: 05/04/2009 7:40PM

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There is a treatment, but not currently in sufficient quantity if if became an actual pandemic. This sort of thing is difficult to predict, and over-caution is better than the alternative.

Posted On: 05/04/2009 7:55PM

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