swine flu

[SnowyShiloh]

Yeah, more people have contracted the regular flu and died from it than from the swine flu this year, but no one's freaking out about that. The regular flu usually kills people with compromised immune systems, so those who are sick already or pregnant or old or really young.

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

OakRidgeRabbits wrote:

Wow...calm down, guys! The numbers sound large, but compared to the MILLIONS of people who don't have it, your chances of getting it are slim. Everyone is freaking out about this at the moment, so you have to take it with a grain of salt and realize that it is being blown way out of proportion!

But if you think about it, it's more of how fast it's spreading....and the large amout of new cases popping up by the hour, etc.

I took this from some information that was posted here earlier:

Between 2005 until January 2009, 12 human cases of swine flu were detected in the U.S. with no deaths occurring.

So, in four years, only 12 cases were detected in the U.S.....Now, there's well over 75+ just in the US alone; and in Mexico, over 2,000; and more elsewhere. The numbers are still rising...and this is in a matter of 2-3 weeks.

So, I think it's worth the freak out....

Emily

 

[NetherlandDwarf]

OakRidgeRabbits wrote:

Wow...calm down, guys! The numbers sound large, but compared to the MILLIONS of people who don't have it, your chances of getting it are slim. Everyone is freaking out about this at the moment, so you have to take it with a grain of salt and realize that it is being blown way out of proportion!

The government as well as many other countries are just trying to get to the people who have it or may have been in contact with someone or some where to make sure the more aggressive strain that is affecting mexico in contained and has not crossed over the border. Thats whats all the newsabout is to make people more aware and take precautions, basically be more self aware. they dont want it to spread anymore and for people who have flu like symptoms to stay home, unless they feel its much more worse like respiratory issues & fevers. everyone is just trying to prevent the worst from happening. like with my daughter i suspected something more and i have to be more careful because i am also 34 weeks pregnant. i think in most cases its better to be safer than sorry, because you dont know where its going to turn up.

 

[NetherlandDwarf]

BlueSkyAcresRabbitry wrote:

OakRidgeRabbits wrote:

Wow...calm down, guys! The numbers sound large, but compared to the MILLIONS of people who don't have it, your chances of getting it are slim. Everyone is freaking out about this at the moment, so you have to take it with a grain of salt and realize that it is being blown way out of proportion!

But if you think about it, it's more of how fast it's spreading....and the large amout of new cases popping up by the hour, etc.

I took this from some information that was posted here earlier:

Between 2005 until January 2009, 12 human cases of swine flu were detected in the U.S. with no deaths occurring.

So, in four years, only 12 cases were detected in the U.S.....Now, there's well over 75+ just in the US alone; and in Mexico, over 2,000; and more elsewhere. The numbers are still rising...and this is in a matter of 2-3 weeks.

So, I think it's worth the freak out....

Emily

well put

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

NetherlandDwarf wrote:

BlueSkyAcresRabbitry wrote:

OakRidgeRabbits wrote:

Wow...calm down, guys! The numbers sound large, but compared to the MILLIONS of people who don't have it, your chances of getting it are slim. Everyone is freaking out about this at the moment, so you have to take it with a grain of salt and realize that it is being blown way out of proportion!

But if you think about it, it's more of how fast it's spreading....and the large amout of new cases popping up by the hour, etc.

I took this from some information that was posted here earlier:

Between 2005 until January 2009, 12 human cases of swine flu were detected in the U.S. with no deaths occurring.

So, in four years, only 12 cases were detected in the U.S.....Now, there's well over 75+ just in the US alone; and in Mexico, over 2,000; and more elsewhere. The numbers are still rising...and this is in a matter of 2-3 weeks.

So, I think it's worth the freak out....

Emily

well put

Thank you

Emily

 

[JadeIcing]

If I got my concern is who is taking care of the animals.

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

JadeIcing wrote:

If I got my concern is who is taking care of the animals.

The animals of the ones who are sick or?? I'm not quite sure what you mean.

Emily

 

[myLoki]

Still nothing on my end.

 

[OakRidgeRabbits]

BlueSkyAcresRabbitry wrote:

JadeIcing wrote:

If I got my concern is who is taking care of the animals.

The animals of the ones who are sick or?? I'm not quite sure what you mean.

Emily

I would assume that they will euthanize the sick ones since it is a respiratory disease. In factory farm environments, something like that spreads rapidly. Even though euthanizing a whole herd would be devastating, it would pretty much stop the illness in its tracks.

I'm not sure if they'd still use them for meat. Probably not, just because of the hysteria. But the flu can't be spread through meat, so who knows.:expressionless

 

[Maureen Las]

I hate things like this. it has been on the news all day . the way it is broadcast it is almost as if the mediais trying to scare people.:nerves1

it is scaring me :nerves1; I just hate things like this.
The positive thing is that there is no one who has become seriously ill outside of the people already in Mexico..
Now if the kids in NYC died or somethingI would go on high alert anxiety but so far the people outside of Mexico with this fluare improving not getting worse.

I wonder so much why the people in Mexico are so much sicker?????

it is sobizare that a human virus, combined with a swine and bird virus to form this strain

like something out of a horror movie....

Ifeel bad for all of the sick people and all of the worried people (Including us)
but so far it only could become terrible and isn't yet (outside of Mexico)
ray:ray:ray:ray:ray:ray:ray:ray:ray:

 

[BSAR]

This is scaring me too.

But listen everyone the reason people in Mexico are dying and no one else is, and i think this was already mentioned but, Mexico is a third world country with crappy medical service and crappy disenfection stuff.

NO ONE is the US or anywhere else as far as I know has died yet. Only in Mexico, relax, if you do get it, which is probably like 1 in a 1 million or more!!

kk just my 2 cents

eta: Yesterday I was looking at stats and stuff about pandemics and the last one was in 1969ish, and it said we were due for antother soon. looks like this may be it, or the bird flu in the future maybe idk. but anyway, technicncally this is already a pandemic, its once it becomes worldwide and spreads human to human.

 

[MyLOVEABLES!!]

if you are worried you might get it or things go to your local pharmacy and ask for "TAMIFLU" thats what the students in my school that are in quarantine have been asked to take. You don't need a prescription. The results of the 11 people from my school is coming tonight.

 

[Maureen Las]

In the US you need a prescription for Tamiflu

 

[MyLOVEABLES!!]

oh wow, starting friday, we don't need anything.
brb dinner

 

[PepnFluff]

There are now 56 suspected case's in New Zealand, thats from 19 last night.......Mum contacted me, she said the reason she ouldn't reply was hotmail often didn't work, phew! She's showing no signs of it she said, that was about it lol I'm going to asked what they were told with thingss like going to work etc. I was watching the news this morning and the 2 in Scotland they got the 22 people they were in contact with now 7 of those are exhibiting symptoms so they have to get hold of all the people they were in contact with. I'm aware of how few people have it in relation to the populations but as Emily said 12 people died from it over a few years theres now being 103 since the 13th and thousands with it and god knows how many suspected.

 

[polly]

the 2 people in the Uk that have it live in Falkirk which is about 20 mins away from us!! they have asked anyone they have been in contact with to go get checked out. bit freaky I only heard about it on the news last night.

 

[MyLOVEABLES!!]

AHHHHH

now i'm FREAKED OUT.

out of the 11 tests 3 came back positive so um...
ITS IN NZ!!!!


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH




I'm not scared about the people that in quarantine apparently someone who hunged out with them or played soccer with them or w/e hasn't been in quarantine and they hunged out before the others were put in qurantine or something like that so so so so so
AHHHHHHHHHH

So basicly ... it's in my school. GRR

 

[bat42072]

I am not gonna worry until I hear its closer to me...

 

[OakRidgeRabbits]

So as soon as I logged into Yahoo this morning, it told me "We're nowhere close to a global flu pandemic."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090428/ap_on_go_ot/us_med_swine_flu_worst_case

Even the MEDIA isn't freaking out anymore. lol

 

[irishbunny]

Four people are being tested for it here, crap! :cry2
They had this expert guy on the telly last night and he said the wave of it that is going around now is not as strong as the one in Mexico, hence no deaths outside Mexico, but the second wave possibly will be strpnger.