Swine flu, could it be the new smallpox?

[Jean-Luc]

Ok, I don't know what you guys are talking about half the time in this thread, and a couple others. This alex guy, whatever.

Dane you are so full of it.

I read a book in my biology class once, and I remember one scary paragraph from it. The book was about dangerous viruses and how they can spread around the globe in a matter of days. I don't remember the name of the book.

"Every possible place that a new virus or disease could pop up is within 24 hours travel to any international air port, where it could travel around the globe to any city, any place on earth within hours."

It went something like that. I remember it telling a story, a scary one, about a man on africa, who contracted a very dangerous and contagious disease and managed to make it all the way to Washington DC. Why this was never in the news, I do not know. That paragraph was in the first few chapters of the book. I'll see if I can find it for y'all.

Cool story bro

In all seriousness though, unless there is any factual backing behind that (and come to think of it, even if there is), then it is fear-mongering, just without the conspiratorial edge that Dane has.

[L0d3x]

I eat swines for breakfast.
Yeah, I like a good strong breakfast.

[ThePlague]

My friend got a phone call today that they were closing elementary schools near her hometown (Rockford, Illinois) and she started getting scared. I heard there were some cases here too (Arizona). Not good man...

[Newbkilla]

Had a death in Ohio where I live, scary eh?

[Spartan094]

Indiana has 1 confirmed swine flu and my grandpa just got A flu, i hope its not the swine flu or else that counts 2 for indiana, i think there is some unconfirmed in michigan aswell, do you think in the US that New York is getting hit real hard?

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

My friend might have it, and some people in lowell might have it, and since I go to a vocational school w/ multiple towns going there, I'm somewhat paranoid tbh.

[DrunkenSamus]

The President of Egypt ordered all the pigs in the WHOLE country to be slaughtered.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Seriously?
Damn.
And, did madagascar seriously close the port?
And will there be a pandemic 3?

[DrunkenSamus]

Seriously?
Damn.
And, did madagascar seriously close the port?
And will there be a pandemic 3?

Yessirrrr, Egypt just wants to save money instead of compensating for a few human deaths by slaughtering the pig population. Sad, eh? (No, I'm not Canadian)

[rossmum]

look at you humanity

look how stupid and gullible you are

it's fucking treatable with flu medications and people are shitting themselves like it's the bubonic plague, for fuck's sake