*** Mexican Flu – the unofficial update thread ***

[Jack]

Here is a link to the leaflet that will be popping through your door sometime in the next couple of weeks.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/924/0080955.pdf (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/924/0080955.pdf)

[Woody1985]

That picture is minging.

[PiemanP]

its got it's own update thread on hibs.net....surely it must be a pandemic by now :greengrin

should we have a sweepstake on which member will get it first :duck:

[ancient hibee]

Ole.

[Hibs90]

Will there be a mass outbreak of Human/Avian Swine flu?

When pigs fly...:bitchy::faf:

[Hibs90]

No offence intended by this joke...

Someone once said that a black man would become president when pigs would fly. Now 100 days in and we have the swine flu.

[Coco Bryce]

I just tried to call the NHS Swine Flu helpline...All I got was crackling.

[Ed De Gramo]

Anybody know where I can watch the swine flu in Edinburgh? :cool2::wink:

[CropleyWasGod]

Little -known facts no. 873.

When we had the last major flu epidemic, in 1918, one of its victims was Dam Macmichael. He was the manager when we last won the Sc*tt*sh C*p.

[Gatecrasher]

its got it's own update thread on hibs.net....surely it must be a pandemic by now :greengrin

should we have a sweepstake on which member will get it first :duck:


i like your avatar, is there a bigger version, i miss the old ground. :boo hoo:

p.s swine flu is starting to spread 9 new cases in UK today.

[CropleyWasGod]

i like your avatar, is there a bigger version, i miss the old ground. :boo hoo:

p.s swine flu is starting to spread 9 new cases in UK today.

How many new cases of HIV are there today?

[col02]

Yet another convenient occurence and headline to keep the spotlight off the inept job the government are doing with practical things like the current recession and unemployment. :rolleyes:

[Betty Boop]

Yet another convenient occurence and headline to keep the spotlight off the inept job the government are doing with practical things like the current recession and unemployment. :rolleyes::agree:

[Gatecrasher]

How many new cases of HIV are there today?

dunno how many :rolleyes:

[PiemanP]

i like your avatar, is there a bigger version, i miss the old ground. :boo hoo:

p.s swine flu is starting to spread 9 new cases in UK today.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatcher/1287661923/ thats the photo there.


And as col02 posted, Gordon Brown must be loving the swine flu, completly diverted the media / publics attentions...

[CropleyWasGod]

dunno how many :rolleyes:

It's likely to be in excess of 20.

Proportion. Priority. Spin. Side-issue. Deflect. All words that spring to mind, as others have suggested.

[Gatecrasher]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatcher/1287661923/ thats the photo there.


And as col02 posted, Gordon Brown must be loving the swine flu, completly diverted the media / publics attentions...

cheers :thumbsup:


It's likely to be in excess of 20.

Proportion. Priority. Spin. Side-issue. Deflect. All words that spring to mind, as others have suggested.


while you dont think its worrying that this is starting to spread, i do, it maybe a "side issue" at the moment but could turn into something much more serious

[CropleyWasGod]

cheers :thumbsup:




while you dont think its worrying that this is starting to spread, i do, it maybe a "side issue" at the moment but could turn into something much more serious

Didn't say I wasn't worrying.

However, in terms of threats to my life or well-being, it's well down the list... after cancer, HIV, being run over by a bus, being jumped by the ned upstairs, jumping off the Tynie stand on Thursday..... all of which are more likely.

[Hainan Hibs]

The way the media portray the flu you would think we had the T-virus from Resident Evil on our hands turning everyone into Zombies.

The Media is turning us into a country of panic merchants.

[Gatecrasher]

Didn't say I wasn't worrying.

However, in terms of threats to my life or well-being, it's well down the list... after cancer, HIV, being run over by a bus, being jumped by the ned upstairs, jumping off the Tynie stand on Thursday..... all of which are more likely.

at the moment. but im sure we have both heard about what a potential flu pandemic could lead to, the point is you can catch this just be bumping into the wrong person in the street and its all about containing it, so i think its right to keep it in peoples mind so they know what to look out for in terms of symptoms to keep spreading this to a minimum, then we can go back to slagging the goverment :greengrin

[Jack]

Well put, well said.

[Hibrandenburg]

How many new cases of HIV are there today?

That's a little like comparing apples and pears. You can't get HIV by opening a door that a HIV patient opened 10mins before you, the same can't be said for swine influenza.

If this thing snowballs then it has the potential to sweep through the population like a forest fire. There are practical precautions you can take to almost ensure you don't get HIV but with the H1N1 it's a lottery.

[CropleyWasGod]

That's a little like comparing apples and pears. You can't get HIV by opening a door that a HIV patient opened 10mins before you, the same can't be said for swine influenza.

If this thing snowballs then it has the potential to sweep through the population like a forest fire. There are practical precautions you can take to almost ensure you don't get HIV but with the H1N1 it's a lottery.

I hear what you're saying, and of course it's a concern. I'm not trying to belittle that. However, there are many echoes of the HIV hysteria in the 80's.... remember the "gay plague" that you could get from toilet seats?. Given that the Mexicans seem to think their particular outbreak has peaked, and that still no-one in Europe has died (apparently), I am hoping that this is another 9 day wonder.

[Hibrandenburg]

I hear what you're saying, and of course it's a concern. I'm not trying to belittle that. However, there are many echoes of the HIV hysteria in the 80's.... remember the "gay plague" that you could get from toilet seats?. Given that the Mexicans seem to think their particular outbreak has peaked, and that still no-one in Europe has died (apparently), I am hoping that this is another 9 day wonder.

Amen!

[zander_hfc]

It's probably worth noting also that at this point it is believed that swine flu is a mild strain of influenza, possibly needing one more mutation to become more powerful and more of a danger to people. Also though it is still early days and noone knows for sure how it will evolve. For now looks like don't worry too much, but in the future it could become a concern, and in the lead up to and during the winter months, it could become far more of a problem

[Woody1985]

It's probably worth noting also that at this point it is believed that swine flu is a mild strain of influenza, possibly needing one more mutation to become more powerful and more of a danger to people. Also though it is still early days and noone knows for sure how it will evolve. For now looks like don't worry too much, but in the future it could become a concern, and in the lead up to and during the winter months, it could become far more of a problem

And that's why it's even more important that people are vigilant just now and every effort being made to halt it.

[J-C]

It's probably worth noting also that at this point it is believed that swine flu is a mild strain of influenza, possibly needing one more mutation to become more powerful and more of a danger to people. Also though it is still early days and noone knows for sure how it will evolve. For now looks like don't worry too much, but in the future it could become a concern, and in the lead up to and during the winter months, it could become far more of a problem


Professor on radio the other night was saying that influenza mutates approx every couple of years, this is just another strain which has been mtated with pig flu. Nothing to be wary of, just to be precautious like any other type of flu and the reason it's bad in Mexico was to do with their living qualities and the fact that their health service is almost non existant.