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| Thread ID: 100661 | 2009-06-16 00:25:00 | Let's have a Swine Flu party! | forrest44 (754) | PC World Chat |
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| 782686 | 2009-07-04 13:52:00 | The reason one might want to get this relatively mild version of the Swine flu is because if it follows the same path as the Spanish flu of 1919, and it is an H1N1 type, then just as Spring comes this year a new and much more virulent form will emerge, but those who have had the first version will not die of the second. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 782687 | 2009-07-05 11:31:00 | The reason one might want to get this relatively mild version of the Swine flu is because if it follows the same path as the Spanish flu of 1919, and it is an H1N1 type, then just as Spring comes this year a new and much more virulent form will emerge, but those who have had the first version will not die of the second. One flu expert Dr. Anne Moscona described that approach as "totally nuts". |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 782688 | 2009-07-05 12:54:00 | Well I suggest that Dr. Anne Moscona has a read of this: "So the second wave began and flu quickly spread around the world again.[41] It was the same flu, in that those who recovered from first-wave infections were immune, but it was far more deadly, and the most vulnerable people were those like the soldiers in the trenches—young, otherwise healthy, adults" from here: en.wikipedia.org Note that the current Swine flu is an H1N1 variety just like the Spanish flu. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 782689 | 2009-07-06 00:57:00 | Over here in Aus there hasn’t been one case reported since Michael Jackson died. :eek::rolleyes: | B.M. (505) | ||
| 782690 | 2009-07-06 01:08:00 | I just heard that all the people in NZ who had a 'swine flu' related death, all had underlying medical conditions previously. It's been nice to hear about something rather than swine flu actually, seeing as the whole thing is one massive crock of ****. Cheers MJ. :thumbs: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 782691 | 2009-07-06 01:38:00 | I just heard that all the people in NZ who had a 'swine flu' related death, all had underlying medical conditions previously. It's been nice to hear about something rather than swine flu actually, seeing as the whole thing is one massive crock of ****. Cheers MJ. :thumbs: I suspect these people would have died of the regular flu as if they had caught it well, but that would have been so news worthy would it?? |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 782692 | 2009-07-06 01:56:00 | Probably, but I'm no expert. I'm not that worried. | ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 782693 | 2009-07-06 01:59:00 | I suspect these people would have died of the regular flu as if they had caught it well, but that would have been so news worthy would it?? Agree 100%. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 782694 | 2009-07-06 12:02:00 | Well I suggest that Dr . Anne Moscona has a read of this: "So the second wave began and flu quickly spread around the world again . [41] It was the same flu, in that those who recovered from first-wave infections were immune, but it was far more deadly, and the most vulnerable people were those like the soldiers in the trenches—young, otherwise healthy, adults" from here: . wikipedia . org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Patterns_of_fatality" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org Note that the current Swine flu is an H1N1 variety just like the Spanish flu . One problem - it doesn't actually appear to be true that those people were immune from the second wave, certainly not an established fact like suggested in wikipedia . The fact that it is H1N1 doesn't mean anything in terms of it following the 1918 epidemic, and indeed it is very unlikely the conditions exist now for the scale of deaths that happened then, medicine has progressed . They have though remarkably reproduced the 1918 virus in the lab for study . Which still leaves us with Dr . Anne Moscona being a flu expert, and you a wikipedia reader . However as I've stated before, two interesting podcasts on the topic with experts who know more about this than I do . Futures in Biotech - Sneezing Pandemic . twit . tv/fib42" target="_blank">www . twit . tv This Week In Virology - Pandemic . twiv . tv/2009/06/15/twiv-36-pandemic/" target="_blank">www . twiv . tv |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 782695 | 2009-07-06 12:10:00 | Please bear in mind that Anne Moscona is a doctor, and as such dependent on illness for her income. Healthy people are just extraneous nuisances cluttering up the roads to the medical profession. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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