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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE53N22820...
The WHO says the virus from 12 of the Mexican patients is genetically the same as a new strain of swine flu, designated H1N1, seen in eight people in California and Texas. All of the eight later recovered.

An emergency committee of WHO experts, convening on Saturday, will advise Chan on issues including possibly changing the WHO's pandemic alert level, currently at 3 on a scale of 1 to 6.

"We do not yet have a complete picture of the epidemiology or the risk, including possible spread beyond the currently affected areas," Chan said, adding the situation was seen as "serious."


I wonder how many different kinds of flu are now going to appear. I have a feeling that viruses now get more vicious; the things my son brings from kindergarten have already made me very sick a few times and I don't remember people getting so sick when I was a kid.
Do you think we're experiencing the beginning of a new pandemic?
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Depends.
Southern Europe uses significantly more anti-biotics, so do the US. The least use Germany, the Netherlands.
Then we have all the pesticides, genetic manipulated crop and mono-cultural breeding/growing.
Mix it with a bit of chemical research and a nutty professor and yes, we might face for sure some new shit heading our way.
Or something.
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It's disconcerting, these multi-strain bullshit things are hard. Swine seems to respond to something we have in huge stockpiles, though, and I still remember that 1978 time when more people passed away thanks to the vaccine than the syndrome.
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Wow, 81 dead and media are going ballistic about "global pandemic"... Unbelievable how much bull and hype can such minor incident spark.Marcin B. edytował(a) ten post dnia 26.04.09 o godzinie 14:32
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I thought this might be of some interest to the author of this thread

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=pandemic-hot-spots...
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It didn't work for the swine flu, did it?

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What worries me is that we get all those nasty viruses that actually transfer themselves from human to human. Scary. Now it won't be enough to slaughter and burn all swine.
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Marcin B.:
Wow, 81 dead and media are going ballistic about "global pandemic"... Unbelievable how much bull and hype can such minor
Thank you. Shark attacks.

It has some components we don't like to see. But still, Marcin has it. The media...Joj Y. edytował(a) ten post dnia 28.04.09 o godzinie 02:58
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Bernd Schreckenberg

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The WHO raised the level to 4. One before pandemony. Nice. Now we just have to wait for enough assholes getting sick on planes because they have to close important business deals or so desperately want to see their family again so that we can all share the excitement of a terminal sickness. Or something.

And don't tell me I'm wrong, I watched 'Outbreak' about ten times!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/
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Joj Y.:
Marcin B.:
Wow, 81 dead and media are going ballistic about "global pandemic"... Unbelievable how much bull and hype can such minor
Thank you. Shark attacks.

It has some components we don't like to see. But still, Marcin has it. The media...

After the "potentially-really-serious-pneumonia-that-we-had-no-better-name-for-so-we-coined-that-ominous-sounding-name" aka SARS or avian flu I need to see 6 figure numbers to start worrying. Otherwise these outbreaks will remain more of a curiosity than a threat. Obviously the TV will make it look like Armageddon.

To be honest, that whole hype could easily be turned into a smashing South Park episode.

Today's comment in Nature - from a concerned reader in Denmark :)

"I hope you agree! For a serious pandemonia to occour, you need three things: High mortality, easily transmissionable and long incubation time. [...] Maybe ther's a great risk of a pandemonia, but are we just gonna roll over and hope not to die?! Klaus Laursen"
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090427/full/news.2009....

Now, this is brilliant! I'm sure there is a risk of pandemonia given the fact that 2012 is approaching...


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Marcin B. edytował(a) ten post dnia 29.04.09 o godzinie 14:39
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The source of swine flu has been found:
http://www.joemonster.org/phorum/read.php?f=18&t=425979
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Aneta W.

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It looks like it's a big deal but they are not talking about it much on the news in the US... there is probably more about it on TVN24 ;) anyway I found this interesting article...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29/swine.flu.song.mu...

The swine flu song :)
http://stephan-zielinski.com/static/Swine%20Flu%20Hema...Aneta Wołowik edytował(a) ten post dnia 30.04.09 o godzinie 08:26
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Paweł F.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PelTWCUmTsU
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Paweł F.

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http://theflucase.com/index.php?lang=en
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