Definitive Swine Flu Thread (POST ABOUT IT HERE ONLY)
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1900 infected 100 dead it is not so bad, all tge deads are mexicans.
my neighbors have a do not loot sign.
Ps no sightings in finland yet though spanish and france have probbably a diseased ones.
My mother's in San Fransisco, says she has a Flu, dunno if it's Swine Flu. She says it's not. :(
Can swine make you crazy?
Well fuck, it's reached Australia now apparently. That shit gets around fast.
[url]http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html[/url]
The official page of the WHO, if anyone is interested.
what's the difference between the flu and swine flu? is swine flu worse or something?
So does it make you crazy
y/n
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On the plus side, if it becomes world wide and McDonalds is still selling bacon on their McGriddles, we know that they don't use real pork :dance:
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;14862766]Swine flu needs Drug Resistance III quick.[/QUOTE]
Kidney faliure!
[QUOTE=€hr¡s;14863136]what's the difference between the flu and swine flu? is swine flu worse or something?[/QUOTE]
Flu is just the general word for influenza, while swine flu describes the exact type of the influenza.
[QUOTE=rosthouse;14863203]Flu is just the general word for influenza, while swine flu describes the exact type of the influenza.[/QUOTE]
yeah but what's the difference? wouldn't catching swine flu be just like catching the flu?
[QUOTE=amirite y/n;14863143]So does it make you crazy
y/n[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=amirite y/n;14863272][/QUOTE]
Read the thread.
[QUOTE=€hr¡s;14863235]yeah but what's the difference? wouldn't catching swine flu be just like catching the flu?[/QUOTE]
No. The difference is always the virus you catch. If you catch an anyday virus, your body knows what antibodys to produce against this virus.
But swine flu is a (nearly) completly new type of virus, so your body needs a lot more time to produce antibodys. And that's probably why people are more affected by it.
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;14863307]Read the thread.[/QUOTE]
I love your avatar.
Fuck, i've been sick with flu like symptoms since wedensday
ohshitohshitohshit.
A blog by some kind of scientist with a timeline of events
[url]http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/biosurveillance/2009/04/swine-flu-in-mexico-timeline-of-events.html[/url]
[QUOTE=rosthouse;14863317]No. The difference is always the virus you catch. If you catch an anyday virus, your body knows what antibodys to produce against this virus.
But swine flu is a (nearly) completly new type of virus, so your body needs a lot more time to produce antibodys. And that's probably why people are more affected by it.[/QUOTE]
so basically the lack of immunity and medicine is what makes it dangerous? with the way people are flipping out about it you would think it'd make your internal organs melt or your head explode or something.
Its a virus, so we will never be compleatly immune to it...
[QUOTE=Canned Induvidual;14863525]Its a virus, so we will never be compleatly immune to it...[/QUOTE]
Doesn't mean we can stop from getting it.
Swine Flu is considered pretty bad because it share many traits of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed upwards of 100 million people worldwide. Vaccines are supposedly effective, but some sources claim that people are dying regardless of vaccination. Tamiflu and other medication is also supposed to be effective.
Speculation is that as it becomes more contagious, due to it's capability of being transmitted human to human, it can rapidly mutate and spread across the world quickly while being difficult to treat. Also, unlike the majority of flu mortalities, the people dying from H1N1 are often young, healthy people with strong immune systems. These viruses are making the immune system freak out, and it starts trashing everything it gets a hold of, in what is called a cytokine storm. This causes damage to cells in affected areas like the lungs, and people are dying because they have too strong of immune systems.
The analogy I've heard is the idea of a riot gone overboard. When a bunch of riot police get the all clear to do whatever they need to to quell the riot, they start shooting and killing many people, including rioters and bystanders as well.
That map is pretty frightening, more cases each time I've checked it...
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We're all gonna die
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/o/
[QUOTE=€hr¡s;14863411]so basically the lack of immunity and medicine is what makes it dangerous? with the way people are flipping out about it you would think it'd make your internal organs melt or your head explode or something.[/QUOTE]
Yes, it's basically that. But it's still a very dangerous disease, because it jumps from pig/bird/human to human. So it gets spread around pretty fast. Also, it affects mostly young and healthy people. Because of those 2 points it should be treated very seriously, and that's what the WHO and the affected states are doing right now.
Luckily the virus reacts on common medicine like tamiflu, so we can actively do something against it .
[QUOTE=g1real;14863974]We're all gonna die
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/o/[/QUOTE]
Or just avoid pig...
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