Swine Flu
04-25-2009, 03:44 PM
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Swine Flu
This making anybody else a little nervous?
More so then the bird flu not long ago at least... Risk seems much higher, as well as the casualties from it so far, as long as the crowd it is affecting are young and healthy.
Not good news.
More so then the bird flu not long ago at least... Risk seems much higher, as well as the casualties from it so far, as long as the crowd it is affecting are young and healthy.
Not good news.
04-25-2009, 06:23 PM
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04-27-2009, 08:25 AM
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The 1918 h1n1 flu had two troubling characteristics. Unlike most influenza's, it
a) traveled from human to human
b) tended to be fatal to mostly young adults with strong immune systems (due to a immune reaction called a cytokine storm)
the current swine flu, has all those same characteristics. Even the bird flu (h5n1) can't be spread from human to human.
04-27-2009, 08:35 AM
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Let's see how long it takes the government to get their butts in gear before it gets out of hand.
I say close all borders into the U.S. It might be a bit drastic but a necessary precaution to try and stop the spread.
I say close all borders into the U.S. It might be a bit drastic but a necessary precaution to try and stop the spread.
04-27-2009, 09:27 AM
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According to the CDC, the Avian Flu is hard to transmit but very deadly, whereas Swine Flu is easy to transmit but not as deadly despite being a subclass of H1N1. Let's hope they're right . . .
04-27-2009, 10:59 AM
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While it may be something to keep an eye on, I tend to thing the media blows things out of proportions and gives quite a bit of wrong information. Remember a couple of summers ago when it was "the summer of the shark?" The media was plastering our TVs with videos of sharks feeding in Florida and a shark attack would make rounds around the world. That year there were statistically less shark attacks. Also, whenever we watch the news and they are reporting something aviation related, how often do we pilots complain about the wrong information they give? My wife is in the medical/research field. How many times have I heard her complain about wrong medical/health information the news reports. I'm not saying everything they say isn't true, but the media is not an expert on almost everything they report.
