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they say masks dont help with this virus
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yes
yes u agree or yes they help? |
they say masks dont help with this virus
well the virus itself can get through - but not the fine dropplets of saliva we're always letting out by speaking. and viruses can't jump around - they need a lift given by such dropplets... if these fine dropplets don't reach your eyes, nose ore mouth the virus can't enter your body. that's also why they suggested to wash your hands with desinfectants - because toching such dropplets and then your eyes may transport the virus...
by the way: we had at least two outbrakes of swine flu in the last 35 years:
1976 in the U.S. and 2007 on the Philippines... as far as i remember the world didn't end there (but my memorie is a bit blurry...) |
but my memorie is a bit blurry...)
sorry if i dont recal but did those spread around the world? |
sorry if i dont recal but did those spread around the world?
no... but on the other side: they didn't erase those countries... |
| i do admit this is no "The Plague" or tuberculosis or anything |
see post #27
please, to all of you, don't get so angsty about a thing that happens from time to time...
we survived the avian flu
we survived the hongkong flu
we survived the asian flu
we survived the spanish flu
we survived the... ach, whatever!
we even survived the plague, and believe me THEY thought it was the end of the world...
(by we i mean as humanity - not as individuals)
Annually, 8 million people become ill with tuberculosis, and 2 million people die from the disease worldwide. In the 19th century, tuberculosis killed an estimated one-quarter of the adult population of Europe. In the 20th century, tuberculosis killed approximately 100 million people, BUT IT WASN'T THE APOCALYPSE! (although some sect leaders, demagoges and simple minded and fear ridden individuals claimed so...)
and by the way: there are 36,000 deaths that seasonal influenza (the common flu) causes in the United States each year. |
@34
I saw then on the history channel
And the predictions for when ALL of them happened at the same time |
| The WHO has and is trying to control the Flu, and we must be careful that we dont spread. Reports say a Group of teenagers have travelled from U.S to south pacific and have spread the disease |
hockeymaniac, please stop all the doomsday talk. Its not doomsday ok. It will be when you see the messiah come. But that is it. Remember what we say hear are read by many children so please don't go brainwashing people.
Zarebrant words are so much better. What about cervical cancer? what about breast cancer? AIDS? Car accidents for crying out loud. please no doomsday talk |
| Hey, Swine Flu comes from swine? or just a name? |
The scientific name of the Flu is H1N1 Flu.
@50; The messiah will come 40 ___ Before doomsday, but none knows the tiem period of 40 |
| + The OIE , says the H1N1 Flu which is presently circulating at present includes components of HUMAN,AVIAN and SWINE origin and is therefore is a coc-tail. So it is wrong to say it as SWINE FLU, which is creating a misconception bewenn peope that pork causes SWINE Flu or newly named " North American Infuenza" |
The whole point is that the flu is constantly evolving. Everyone is getting hyped up over this swine flu bullcocky. It's a new strain of flu. Major evolutions of the flue come around every decade or so and kill about .125% of the world population (about 2-3 million people). Most of the fatal cases are in elderly, those already in poor health, and the very young.
Yes, it's not a good thing and is considered a pandemic. Is it the end of the world? Certainly not. Our bodies are resilient and well-equipped to deal with a mutated flu virus. Healthy individuals need not be concerned, and those at high risk should just take the normal precautions (wash your hands regularly, stay away from other sickly individuals, etc...)
If anything, panic causes stress which will make your body react negatively to _any_ sort of infection. |
Cmon get down with the sickness!!!
Down with the sickness - Disturbed
XDDD yeah this is actually quite funny to someone who likes violence... like a christmas... immediatly following christmas... |
yes u agree or yes they help?
yes i agree |
Mexico's top health official said Thursday the number of new swine flu cases is stabilizing in the nation at the epicenter of the outbreak. Health secretary Jose Angel Cordova told a news conference he hoped the trend will continue and that a vaccine would be available in six months. European health ministers said they would speed efforts to develop such a vaccine.
The World Health Organization's flu chief, reacting to similar comments from other Mexican officials, cautioned that case numbers often go up and down, and said the WHO had yet to see concrete evidence that swine flu, believed to have killed 168 people in Mexico, was leveling off.
"It's a mixed pattern out there," Dr. Keiji Fukuda said. "What's happening in one part of the country is not necessarily what's happening in another part of the country."
New cases of swine flu were confirmed in the United States and Europe a day after the WHO said the virus threatened to become a global epidemic and raised its alert level to Phase 5, the second-highest stage, for the first time. |
No matter what you call it, leading experts say the virus that is scaring the world is pretty much all pig. So while the U.S. government and now the World Health Organization are taking the swine out of "swine flu," the experts who track the genetic heritage of the virus say this: If it is genetically mostly porcine and its parents are pig viruses, it smells like swine flu to them.
Six of the eight genetic segments of this virus strain are purely swine flu and the other two segments are bird and human, but have lived in swine for the past decade, says Dr. Raul Rabadan, a professor of computational biology at Columbia University.
A preliminary analysis shows that the closest genetic parents are swine flu strains from North America and Eurasia, Rabadan wrote in a scientific posting in a European surveillance network.
"Scientifically this is a swine virus," said top virologist Dr. Richard Webby, a researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. Webby is director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza Viruses in Lower Animals and Birds. He documented the spread a decade ago of one of the parent viruses of this strain in scientific papers. |
The World Health Organization announced Thursday it will would stop using the term "swine flu" to avoid confusion over the danger posed by pigs. The policy shift came a day after Egypt began slaughtering thousands of pigs in a misguided effort to prevent swine flu.
WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said the agriculture industry and the U.N. food agency had expressed concerns that the term "swine flu" was misleading consumers and needlessly causing countries to ban pork products and order the slaughter of pigs.
"Rather than calling this swine flu ... we're going to stick with the technical scientific name H1N1 influenza A," Thompson said.
Egypt began slaughtering its roughly 300,000 pigs Wednesday even though experts said swine flu is not linked to pigs and not spread by eating pork. Angry farmers protested the government decree. |
for Bevan: I know when Jesus cones the earth will end.
I know that doomsday is NOT true. I am just stating that it is very freaky |
