Google updated map of flu outbreak

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 4061

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.650649,-116.139221&spn=2.062781,3.99353&z=8

Kai Admirer Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 410

waaaaaah it's coming closer to my country!!!!!!! :S

PSP Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 2405

this is win, get away from my house swine flu

Nintendo Specialist Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1889

this is amazing.

I guess there arent any pigs in africa...
Theres a lady in my town that has a piglet that she walks like a dog lol

Kai Regular Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 76

Yea, it's close to me. If there was ever a good time for me to ease up on breakfast sausage, this would be it....

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:24 am

Ahh crap, why did it have to come to Australia Sad

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1697

they should rename the virus to MANBIRDPIG!

Video Master Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1815

i got linksys hardware firewall and avast anti virus. im good.

Very Happy

Kai Regular Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 76

TPP27 wrote:

i got linksys hardware firewall and avast anti virus. im good.

Very Happy

Kai Admirer Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 410

lol dont let the flu get through your firewalls lol

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 4061

WHO Raises alert to level (phase) 4

Phase 1: No viruses circulating among animals causing infections in humans

Phase 2: Animal influenza virus causes infection in humans, and is considered potential pandemic threat

Phase 3: Influenza causes sporadic cases in people, but no significant human-to-human transmission

Phase 4: Verified human-to-human transmission able to cause community-level outbreaks. Significant increase in risk of a pandemic

Phase 5: Human-to-human transmission in at least two countries. Strong signal pandemic imminent

Phase 6: Virus spreads to another country in a different region. Global pandemic under way

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 2075

Thanks for the WHO alert explanation Duke, I wondered what that was all about.

From the little that I've gathered, it seems this new great evil is just a plain old nasty flu. People die of the flu all the time. Children, elderly and those with weaken immune systems are especially susceptible. Still, this is not like MRSA. Antibiotics are prescribed and people recover from this like any other flu. Of the few confirmed cases here in Canada, only a couple of people are hospitalized and most are simply recovering at home.

Am I misunderstanding the severity of this latest outbreak?

-p

Kai Regular Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 76

prestige wrote:

Thanks for the WHO alert explanation Duke, I wondered what that was all about.

From the little that I've gathered, it seems this new great evil is just a plain old nasty flu. People die of the flu all the time. Children, elderly and those with weaken immune systems are especially susceptible. Still, this is not like MRSA. Antibiotics are prescribed and people recover from this like any other flu. Of the few confirmed cases here in Canada, only a couple of people are hospitalized and most are simply recovering at home.

Am I misunderstanding the severity of this latest outbreak?

-p

Ah, you to huh? I was reading the symptoms of it and I thought, "geez, sounds like a normal case of the flu to me."

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1697

Quote:

Bad flu epidemics can hit young adults hardest because they provoke their powerful immune systems into overreaction, so to stay healthy spend the next few weeks drunk and sleep-deprived to keep yours suppressed.

http://xkcd.com/574/

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 4061

prestige wrote:

Thanks for the WHO alert explanation Duke, I wondered what that was all about.

From the little that I've gathered, it seems this new great evil is just a plain old nasty flu. People die of the flu all the time. Children, elderly and those with weaken immune systems are especially susceptible. Still, this is not like MRSA. Antibiotics are prescribed and people recover from this like any other flu. Of the few confirmed cases here in Canada, only a couple of people are hospitalized and most are simply recovering at home.

Am I misunderstanding the severity of this latest outbreak?

-p

The H1N1 virus is 4 parts. 2 parts swine flu, 1 part bird flu, 1 part human flu.
If what im reading and been told (bbc news) the tamiflu only kills off the human part. It would be up to your body`s defences to kill the rest.

PSP Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 2405

prestige wrote:

Thanks for the WHO alert explanation Duke, I wondered what that was all about.

From the little that I've gathered, it seems this new great evil is just a plain old nasty flu. People die of the flu all the time. Children, elderly and those with weaken immune systems are especially susceptible. Still, this is not like MRSA. Antibiotics are prescribed and people recover from this like any other flu. Of the few confirmed cases here in Canada, only a couple of people are hospitalized and most are simply recovering at home.

Am I misunderstanding the severity of this latest outbreak?

-p

I Recovered from mrsa.... i was really lucky though

Kai Lover Joined: 21 Nov 2007 Posts: 956

in a far far away land called uruguay, niko says:

it'll never get here

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:11 pm

Haha you wish Niko, if it can make it to Australia its already there by now

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 2075

-Ricochet- wrote:

I Recovered from mrsa.... i was really lucky though

Both my inlaws contracted it last year and were hospitalized for months. Very nasty stuff. Glad you pulled through.

-p

Kai Admirer Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 410

i think it is just like a normal flu, maybe a little bit worse...
I guess just the regular things have to be done, when you got any kind of flu:
stay in bed, stay warm! Thats it... i guess :S ^^