Swine flu - Page 2

eviltwin · #1 08-05-2009, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by here.choo

160 already in Thailand. Updated 05.08.09 .. and more and more everyday.

That sounds like a lot, considering the official worldwide numbers from the WHO are a bit over 1100, with most of them in the USA. Is Thailand accurately reporting these to the WHO? Official numbers for infections worldwide are at 160,000.

To put this in perspective, the 1918 pandemic infected 500million or >30% of the global population, of which over 10% died (IE >2,5% of the total opulation). Interestingly, there were some big differences in per capita deaths in 1981-1919, for example

Japan was just below average at ~2% (1in50)
The USA was over at 4% (1in25)
India (then including P akistan and Bangladesh) at over 7% (1in14).
The Netherlands despite housing a MILLION (yes 1,000,000) refugees from Belgium, France and Germany because of WW.1, "only" had 27,000 deaths. (1in250)

But having these kinds of numbers in this day and age would be totally unacceptable.

I'm still puzzled why we keep calling it Mexican Flu' though, as it most likely originated from the US, much like the 1918 "Spanish" Flu'...Swine flu' is as much a misnomer, when it's simply a variant of regular flu (also an H1N1 strand).

rickcard71 · #2 08-05-2009, 03:32 AM

The regular Fluenza kills way many more people! Only the uneducated, naive, brainwashed media circused people are afraid.

Gilberto99 · #3 10-16-2009, 09:35 AM

No. What I really fear is the way the news covers it.

Myst and rain · #4 10-19-2009, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Gilberto99

No. What I really fear is the way the news covers it.

I'll tell you out here in The Netherlands there was this "expert" being interviewed on this current events show on TV. And the presenter interrupted him when he was giving an answer she didn't like (he didn't agree with her) and she then said something along the lines of "Yeah, but we think it's this and with that I'd like to end this interview". The whole show seemed scripted in a way. It was completely crazy and inappropriate.

rhildinger · #5 10-22-2009, 05:42 PM

Yikes! I hope everything is okay with you and your loved ones, theapprentice....

OT: I voted no for being worried about swine flu

IbanezDaemon · #6 10-19-2009, 01:15 PM

Not worried at all and nor should you be unless you're in very poor health.

Myst and rain · #7 10-19-2009, 03:34 PM

Yeah, I'm not worried about the flu anymore, personally.

Algiman · #8 10-19-2009, 03:45 PM

All those who have pointed out that seasonal or normal flu kills more people every year are completely right of course - but how often do you hear about people being killed by flu in the summer? It isn't a particularly good comparison. The media is hyping the story massively, and I'm sure in the UK the government was glad of anything that got them of the front pages of the papers for a while, but behind it all is a degree of truth - the virus is potentially nasty and if there is a massive spike in cases then we're in trouble. The important word there is potentially.

Something to keep an eye on, but not panic about.

eviltwin · #9 10-20-2009, 08:29 AM

it's nothing more than an aggressive marketing campaign by the flue shot manufacturers.

Sickbean · #10 10-20-2009, 08:41 AM

It's the least of my worries to be honest.

theapprentice · #11 10-21-2009, 07:49 AM

A few months ago swine flu was the biggest scare here in the Philippines, until two really strong typhoons hit the country's main island Luzon. Now people are worrying a lot more about finding new homes and figuring out how to get a new lease in life after the tragedies.