Interesting.
The seasonal (or a seasonal) vaccine is the for the same type of flu, but it is my understanding that this is a new type, therefore the existing H1N1 vaccine is more or less useless.
The article does mention Relenza - that and Tamiflu are two prescription drugs that some reports are saying are helpful in some way, so who knows.
not sure if something like this has been posted, it's a map of the cases they are tracking ... feel free to move around the globe and check them all out.
I go to Shippensburg University in South Central, PA and we received an email that two students were being tested who attend the University for swine flu. I'm sure its just hysteria, but still kind of scary.
I'm gone ..Long gone..This time I'm letting go of it all...So long...Cause this time I'm gone
are people really this fucking petty? it's a flu from pigs you jackass!! :roll:
Israeli official: Swine flu name offensive
Associated Press - April 27, 2009 10:53 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli health official doesn't like the name swine flu and wants it changed to "Mexican" in deference to Jewish and Muslim sensitivities about pork.
Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman tells a news conference the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions.
Both Judaism and Islam consider pigs unclean and forbid the eating of pork products.
Scientists, however, say there is nothing about the virus that makes it "Mexican" and worry such a label would be stigmatizing. They're unsure where the new swine flu virus originally emerged, though it was identified first in the United States.
Two Israelis who recently visited Mexico have been hospitalized with symptoms of the flu. Health authorities have not yet confirmed whether they actually have the virus.
I know that all the tinfoil hat people are saying that this is Obama starting his martial law thing... or killing undesirables... it's the Taliban attacking us...
But no.. it's just another epidemic and yes.. some people will die. But I lived through two outbreaks of SARS in Toronto and I'm sure I'll live through this now that I live in LA.
i am more worried now after hearing that the father of one of my son's classmates is a teacher at st. francis prep (the queens, ny school that had over 20 cases).
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
The "regular" flu kills up to 30,000 people a year worldwide. When this flu kills that many in less than a year I will be worried.
But the regular flu only kills a very small amount of the people who get it. I mean sure 30,000 people die but that is out of probably tens of millions of people who catch the flu every year. I am not sure what the stats are for Swine flu with respect to what percentage of people who get it actually recover (anyone know).
you guys are mean im sorry im a hypochondriac and live a sheltered life under my rock,, i cant help it... and i dont get a discount on food brandi. btw im freaking out about this flu i told my mom to call me out of school until i graduate.
I bought me 100 masks to wear...I'm all ready!
and I'm totally serious....this scares the shit outta me! :shock:
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
you guys are mean im sorry im a hypochondriac and live a sheltered life under my rock,, i cant help it... and i dont get a discount on food brandi. btw im freaking out about this flu i told my mom to call me out of school until i graduate.
HEHE!!! How did I miss this Rach??
just think of all that Swine Flu you could of been exposed to at the KOL show..... OMG! :shock: :shock: :shock:
"I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
i thought i had the swine flu symptoms... went to the doctors and all he gave me was oinkment...
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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The seasonal (or a seasonal) vaccine is the for the same type of flu, but it is my understanding that this is a new type, therefore the existing H1N1 vaccine is more or less useless.
The article does mention Relenza - that and Tamiflu are two prescription drugs that some reports are saying are helpful in some way, so who knows.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... 63&t=h&z=4
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Israeli official: Swine flu name offensive
Associated Press - April 27, 2009 10:53 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli health official doesn't like the name swine flu and wants it changed to "Mexican" in deference to Jewish and Muslim sensitivities about pork.
Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman tells a news conference the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions.
Both Judaism and Islam consider pigs unclean and forbid the eating of pork products.
Scientists, however, say there is nothing about the virus that makes it "Mexican" and worry such a label would be stigmatizing. They're unsure where the new swine flu virus originally emerged, though it was identified first in the United States.
Two Israelis who recently visited Mexico have been hospitalized with symptoms of the flu. Health authorities have not yet confirmed whether they actually have the virus.
http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=10255490
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/19 ... etail.html
Once I get out of this town
9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
Not worried.
I know that all the tinfoil hat people are saying that this is Obama starting his martial law thing... or killing undesirables... it's the Taliban attacking us...
But no.. it's just another epidemic and yes.. some people will die. But I lived through two outbreaks of SARS in Toronto and I'm sure I'll live through this now that I live in LA.
And this, you don't want none of this!
yeah and pigs might fly.
*groans*
But the regular flu only kills a very small amount of the people who get it. I mean sure 30,000 people die but that is out of probably tens of millions of people who catch the flu every year. I am not sure what the stats are for Swine flu with respect to what percentage of people who get it actually recover (anyone know).
Hahahaha!
Once I get out of this town
9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
I bought me 100 masks to wear...I'm all ready!
and I'm totally serious....this scares the shit outta me! :shock:
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
just think of all that Swine Flu you could of been exposed to at the KOL show..... OMG! :shock: :shock: :shock:
It's a slow news week.
This happened with a small Bubonic Plague outbreak in 1995 in India.. people panicked until a bigger story came along.
and it will again.
this isn't anything to worry about at all.