Swine flu, could it be the new smallpox?

[Sel]

OH NO ITS IN OTTAWA SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHTIS TSHITHSITHSITHSIHTSI HT ISHTSIHTI

[Bodzilla]

~suppress the Mexican threat~

[Phobias]

I'm currently shopping around for tickets to mexico.

Theres a few people I'd love to send on a months holiday there.

[Maniac]

Then you probably weren't in the best of health to begin with :|
Most likely you had a severe allergic reaction to something. flu != respiratory system failure.

Uhh no, when the next killer flu comes (whether this is it or not) it will kill healthy young adults too. Thats whats scary about it.
And to say that the media is scaremongering is shortsighted.
They are simply reporting whats happened. Obviously they will exaggerate when possible, its their nature.

[Choking Victim]

Uhh no, when the next killer flu comes (whether this is it or not) it will kill healthy young adults too. Thats whats scary about it.
And to say that the media is scaremongering is shortsighted.
They are simply reporting whats happened. Obviously they will exaggerate when possible, its their nature.

Considering the global death toll for the regular flu exceeds a few hundred thousand people a year, and their making a massive deal out of a little more than 200 deaths in an area with poor health care? It's fear mongering.

[Maniac]

Time will prove one of us wrong.

[Choking Victim]

Time will prove one of us wrong.

The swine flu has killed 150 over the course of 1 month. 150 x 12 months = 1,800 deaths. That's well under the annual normal influenza death toll, so it seems the odds are on my side.

[rossmum]

The first death in the US was a toddler, or so I've heard.

It kills the very young, the very old, and the immuno-compromised. Surprise surprise, it's about as lethal as a normal flu. It's simply infecting loads of people at the same time, as opposed to the normal flu which is more or less always infecting someone but seldom in the soon-pandemic way this is. The fact it's being described as such gives it a lot more weight than it's worth - you could describe a common cold as a pandemic and it'd sound scary to the average citizen, even though it's relatively harmless.

Really, take care of yourself and you've very little to worry about.

[Choking Victim]

The first death in the US was a toddler, or so I've heard.

Visiting from Mexico.

[rossmum]

Visiting from Mexico.