[johny]

the Swine virus, common in pigs, has just spead to humans near the mexican border... and appears to be spreading human to human. there is no cure. over 1000 found effected, over 60 dead. heathy middle aged people.

the newest world threat is here!.. break out the masks, it'll hit Canada in no time.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517790,00.html

[murd0c]

FUCK I'M GOING TO COSTCO AND GOING TO STOCK UP ON BACON NOW!!!!

[wahyinghung]

The Mexican authorities say 81 people are now thought to have been killed by an outbreak of a human swine flu virus.

People have been told to stay at home to contain the infection, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned could become a pandemic.

Confirmed or suspected cases have also been reported in the US and elsewhere.

At least some confirmed cases show a new version of the H1N1 swine flu sub-strain - a disease which infects pigs but only sporadically infects humans.
H1N1 is the same strain that causes seasonal flu outbreaks in humans, but the newly detected version contains genetic material from versions which usually affect pigs and birds.

There is currently no vaccine for the new strain but severe cases can be treated with antiviral medication.

It is unclear how effective currently available flu vaccines would be at offering protection against the new strain, as it is genetically distinct from other flu strains.

The respiratory virus is spread mainly through coughs and sneezes.

Although all of the deaths so far have been in Mexico, the flu is spreading in the United States and suspected cases have been detected elsewhere:

* Eleven confirmed infections in the US
* In addition, eight suspected cases are being investigated at a New York City high school where about 200 students fell mildly ill with flu-like symptoms
* Twenty-two students and three teachers in New Zealand, some suffering flu-like symptoms, have been quarantined and tested for swine flu after returning from a trip to Mexico
* But a UK hospital conducting tests for swine flu on a British Airways cabin crew member admitted on Saturday said the tests proved negative.

Mexico shutdown

In Mexico, public buildings have been closed and hundreds of public events suspended.

Schools in and around Mexico City have been closed until 6 May, and some 70% of bars and restaurants in the capital have been temporarily closed.

People are being strongly urged to avoid shaking hands, and the US embassy has advised visitors to the country to keep at least six feet (1.8m) from other people.
Mexico's Health Secretary, Jose Cordova, said a total of 1,324 people had been admitted to hospital with suspected symptoms since 13 April and were being tested for the virus.

"In that same period, 81 deaths were recorded probably linked to the virus but only in 20 cases we have the laboratory tests to confirm it," he said.

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has announced emergency measures to deal with the situation.

They include powers to isolate individuals suspected of having the virus without fear of legal repercussions.
'International concern'

In the US, seven people in California, two people in Texas, and two people in Kansas have been infected with the new strain.
video:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8018865.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8018991.stm
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/fp/World+alert+Mexico+epidemic+fear+grows/1535878/story.html
Facts about Swine Flu: http://www.vancouversun.com/Health/Facts+about+swine/1531458/story.html

[orange7]

oh fuck.. and canada is right above the US..

we're doomed!! fuck.. this is 2012.. we're all going to die..

!!!!!

[AAnthony]

great.......im in mexico right now, i guess im done for.

[Durrann1984]

^^ get tested and get out

[CorneringArtist]

Heads up: the Mexican Swine Flu is officially in Canada. 2 cases here in BC, 2 in Nova Scotia.

[Razor Ramon HG]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_H1N1_flu_outbreak

Four cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Nova Scotia and two in British Columbia.[7]

Nova Scotia's chief medical officer, Dr. Robert Strang, said Sunday the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirmed late Saturday, April 25, that four young people in the province are recovering from "relatively mild" cases of the disease. The four all attend King's-Edgehill School preparatory school in Windsor, which held a school trip to the Yucatan Peninsula.[2][51]

B.C.'s Centre for Disease Control on Sunday confirmed two cases of swine flu involving two people from the province who recently returned from Mexico.

Dr. Michael Gardam, director of infectious disease prevention and control at Ontario's public health agency, said in an interview with the CBC that an outbreak of swine flu in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, would not be as serious as the 2003 SARS epidemic.[80] In preparing for and dealing with an influenza pandemic, the Public Health Agency of Canada follows the WHO's categories, but has expanded them somewhat.[81] Despite initial reports of two swine influenza cases in a Montreal hospital, an official on the Montreal regional health board confirmed negative results for all quarantined patients at the hospital and that no quarantines were currently in effect at the hospital.[82] On April 26, the Government of Nova Scotia announced, on a live webcast, that four students in Windsor, Nova Scotia have confirmed cases of swine flu.[83]

Canadian laboratories assisted the Mexican government in confirming their eighteen confirmed cases.[29]

[Meowjin]

I seriously think I have swine flu from something I ate in san fran.

[The7even]

Left 4 Dead.

[shenmecar]

I seriously think I have swine flu from something I ate in san fran.



did u eat pork from mexico?

[Meowjin]

Never know. But my stomach is pretty strong and im not coughing.

[Armind]

Uh oh.. a couple of friends of mine are in Mexico right now. T_T

[orange7]

stop eating pork and don't visit mexico!

[absolution]

Damn , this migh ruin my trip to Japan on May 16!

Is it possible for Japan to reject visitor from Canada?

[johny]

now in BC, NS, Ont, France, New Zealand, Spain, Israel, Scotland

(all people recently returning from mexico)

thanks to airplanes a world pandemic was caused in only days.

the world is doomed in 48 hours!

[Klobbersaurus]

natures own way of population control, swine flu, bird flu, next up will be cow flu

[murd0c]

natures own way of population control, swine flu, bird flu, next up will be cow flu

Ya they will prob call it mad cow disease or somthing like that;)

[johny]

as an FYI, Obama was in Mexico city 1-2 weeks ago?, the first death was the day after he left, and some of the people who died came in direct contact with obama during his visit...

let the conspiracies start.

someone let the virius go in mexico city trying to kill him?..

Or maybe the US let it go?...

seeing it's a combination of a few different viruses, being man made isn't out of the question.

[hal0g0dv2]

as an FYI, Obama was in Mexico city 1-2 weeks ago?, the first death was the day after he left, and some of the people who died came in direct contact with obama during his visit...

let the conspiracies start.

someone let the virius go in mexico city trying to kill him?..

Or maybe the US let it go?...

seeing it's a combination of a few different viruses, being man made isn't out of the question.

hahahahahhaa wtf

[91LS-VTak]

I like pigs, but now they're fighting back. I don't know who to cheer for :(

[Big.Xero]

wonderful. i'm supposed to go to mexico in 2 weeks. guess i'll cancel this friday just to make sure. i'm out 1200 bucks...

[Synaptik]

as an FYI, Obama was in Mexico city 1-2 weeks ago?, the first death was the day after he left, and some of the people who died came in direct contact with obama during his visit...

let the conspiracies start.

someone let the virius go in mexico city trying to kill him?..

Or maybe the US let it go?...

seeing it's a combination of a few different viruses, being man made isn't out of the question.

your newsletter, i must subscribe to it.

[Dinan3]

wonderful. i'm supposed to go to mexico in 2 weeks. guess i'll cancel this friday just to make sure. i'm out 1200 bucks...

that sucks dude.

[StaxBundlez]

http://www.ahelpinghandrestoration.com/mypictures/Biohazard_Black_Yellow.jpg

http://wallpapers.free-review.net/wallpapers/18/Biohazard_-_4.jpg

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w307/anonymousrex31/Resident%20Evil/Zombies.jpg?t=1240804449

[trip]

as an FYI, Obama was in Mexico city 1-2 weeks ago?, the first death was the day after he left, and some of the people who died came in direct contact with obama during his visit...


OBAMAGEDDON

[twitchyzero]

sweet

this means cheaper pork, theheehe.

[orange7]

wonderful. i'm supposed to go to mexico in 2 weeks. guess i'll cancel this friday just to make sure. i'm out 1200 bucks...

that sucks.. but i guess world's health concern > $1200.


fuk.. i guess the world is doomed!

[haymura]

a couple of my friends are in Cancun right now. is there a warning in there or is it mainly mexico city thats having the flu?

[KingDeeCee]

Is this airborne or can you get it from eating pork?

[haymura]

i heard it was airborne. thats why health board are advising ppl to wear masks. I was watching the news just now and they said the likeliness of getting the flu by eating pork is less to rare.

[orange7]

^
what's the size of the virus?

or a better question would be: does all face mask protect the person from this virus? I believe some face masks have more breathability than others.

[kkttsang]

airborne

[haymura]

I think the concern is more on personal hygiene. You can wear a mask all day but it wont prevent you from catching it if u shook hands with someone who might have it and start touching your food with your hands or something similar to that.
I just heard from the news again that the 6 students that travelled to mexico suspected of having swine flu recovered fine except for 1 that is still being tested. zanamivir is an antibiotic that apparently fights off the virus. No confirmed results though if it is the cure.

[danned]

are we dying?

[johny]

are we dying?


over 100 dead in mexico. no confirmed deaths anywhere else yet.

[twitchyzero]

^ there's already 2 cases in BC
if it gets transmitted to the immunocompromised it will not look good.

[TRDood]

I AM LEGEND?????????????

[Ch28]

This is what the mexico/USA border will look like in 2 weeks time

http://i42.tinypic.com/2n7165g.jpg

[BabyJane]

as an FYI, Obama was in Mexico city 1-2 weeks ago?, the first death was the day after he left, and some of the people who died came in direct contact with obama during his visit...

let the conspiracies start.

someone let the virius go in mexico city trying to kill him?..

Or maybe the US let it go?...

seeing it's a combination of a few different viruses, being man made isn't out of the question.

LOL.
i like your reasoning/ imagination.

[monkeywrench]

only when its over 9000 i will start to panic

[HonestTea]

http://www.geocline.net/miscimages/Over9000_small.jpg

[BimmiN]

I live in Mexico... Nothing to worry about(yet). The cases have all been in central mexico. I wouldnt worry about it if you were going to either coast. Use common sense and wash your hands alot and eat in clean places. Dont worry about eating pork as the flew travels from person to person.

[murd0c]

I heard on the news yesterday that the kids in NS that got it were in the Mayan Rivera area. As well they believe it's showing more effect in Mexico is they now believe it's been there for a couple months and it's just starting to show the bad effects now.

[The_AK]

hmm... my parents just came back from mexico 2 days ago, however, they seem perfectly fine.

[hotjoint]

damn

[SpuGen]

CDC officials described the virus as having a unique combination of gene segments not seen in people or pigs before. The bug contains human virus, avian virus from North America and pig viruses from North America, Europe and Asia.

Health officials have seen mixes of bird, pig and human virus before, but never such an intercontinental combination with more than one pig virus in the mix.

http://nickelusf.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/man_bear_pig.jpg

Close enough.

[..::lazybum::..]

FUCK I'M GOING TO COSTCO AND GOING TO STOCK UP ON BACON NOW!!!!

ROFL AHAHHA


in all seriousness though, it seems pretty scary.
I have people who work in the hospitals and they see how fast this crap is spreading.
2012 THE WORLDS DOOMED!! :P :haha:

[murd0c]

The question is did a pig fuck a chicken or did a human fuck a pig while eating chicken?

[orange7]

seriously.. those desperate guys gotta stop fuking animals, exaust pipes, a hole in a wall, etc. etc..

[SpuGen]

seriously.. those desperate guys gotta stop fuking animals, exaust pipes, a hole in a wall, etc. etc..

They're beaners. What won't they fuck.

[murd0c]

They're beaners. What won't they fuck.

Beaners :haha::haha::haha::haha::haha::haha:


I havn't heard that since the amazing rasict :haha::haha::haha:

[What_the?]

the swine flu is treatable using tamiflu (same stuff they used during avian flu times). It's been flying off the shelves along with n95 masks. If you're going to mexico, make sure you are able to pickup some tamiflu and n95 masks and you should be set... plus hand sanitizer...

you may have trouble acquiring the tamiflu and n95 masks however... so if you're going to start looking, contact your physician for a prescription, and your local pharmacies to make sure they have stock or to ask them to order in for you.

[Girl]

the Swine virus, common in pigs, has just spead to humans near the mexican border... and appears to be spreading human to human. there is no cure. over 1000 found effected, over 60 dead. heathy middle aged people.

the newest world threat is here!.. break out the masks, it'll hit Canada in no time.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517790,00.html

:lol When I read it I thought it said:

the Swine virus comes in pigs


...cherry red, and bombastic blue!

[StaxBundlez]

This is what the mexico/USA border will look like in 2 weeks time

http://i42.tinypic.com/2n7165g.jpg

this picture is fuckn awesome

[orange7]

the swine flu is treatable using tamiflu (same stuff they used during avian flu times). It's been flying off the shelves along with n95 masks. If you're going to mexico, make sure you are able to pickup some tamiflu and n95 masks and you should be set... plus hand sanitizer...

you may have trouble acquiring the tamiflu and n95 masks however... so if you're going to start looking, contact your physician for a prescription, and your local pharmacies to make sure they have stock or to ask them to order in for you.

Also, guys, please follow the direction on the prescriotion- tamiflu!
Follow the dosage and keep on taking it even though you think you're cure. We don't want the virus to evole and become immune to the vacine!

[johny]

tamiflu does not work.

[LemonH2O]

tamiflu does not work.

Yup, they said that on CBC news yesterday...they said truly prevention is key just like any flu season, wash your hands often and if you have symptoms, stay in your house in HOME ISOLATION! They also said if you are going to see your doctor, you're suppose to let them know you MAY have the swine so they can keep other patients away to prevent spread.

On a side note, we were walking in Steveston/Gary Point park in Richmond, and 2 c-lai's already had full on SARS masks on!

[Jermyzy]

Great my co-worker just got back from Mexico, and instead of staying home, he comes to work...

[Black SC2]

Jews, Muslims band together:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieHZRubAS3lyjn2GBiCPkXkHrXwwD97QROAG0

JERUSALEM (AP) — The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed "Mexican" influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.
Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu," he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.

[DHP 1]

Great my co-worker just got back from Mexico, and instead of staying home, he comes to work...

put him down asap


:thumbsup:

[haymura]

there's mix reviews of whether Tamilflu does work on swine flu or not. some sites and newspapers mention tamiflu as able to combat the virus. I need clarification on this.

[VR6GTI]

i just got back from mexico. I seem to be fine, if not, nothing i can do about it.

[haymura]

i just got back from mexico. I seem to be fine, if not, nothing i can do about it.

where you quarantined or held by health officials? some ppl are saying anyone who's coming back from a trip to mexico are being held and tested before being able to enter back.

[VR6GTI]

where you quarantined or held by health officials? some ppl are saying anyone who's coming back from a trip to mexico are being held and tested before being able to enter back.
nothing, although i have never seen such a long line up at customs. There were airport officials staring at everyone in line. So i think they were looking for people that were ill.

[haymura]

This is what the mexico/USA border will look like in 2 weeks time

http://i42.tinypic.com/2n7165g.jpg


This whole flu outbreak really scares me but this pic is freakin epic! teh win!:thumbsup:

[Presto]

Like everything, I'm sure the media is blowing things out of proportion. If it was a serious threat, the borders would be closed, and all travelers would be quarantined.

[Roach]

The government has issued a travel warning. Is that serious enough for you?

Kev

[rsx]

fear factor at its best...this is SARS all over again, how many did that kill.. 40? and how many people die from your average influenza virus a year? 4000?

[_Hotsauce_]

Like everything, I'm sure the media is blowing things out of proportion. If it was a serious threat, the borders would be closed, and all travelers would be quarantined.

Here's my insight, I've been following this rather heavily as I've been travelling for the past month, and currently have a flu type cold. Anyhow....the World Health Organization, http://www.who.int/en/, went from Phase 3 to Phase 4 early today, which means sustained human to human transmition. I think that sucks, because the virus is airborne now. I'm in London, and there is talks of "mass breeding grounds" on the underground due to the high volume of people who use it per day; I believe it's in the millions.

As for the quarantine issue, the Director-General of the World Health Organization stated "Given the widespread presence of the virus, the Director-General considered that containment of the outbreak is not feasible. The current focus should be on mitigation measures." (Source-->http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2009/h1n1_20090427/en/index.html)
So, quarantine is not really an option as it's so wide spread.

WHO is conducting a review of the current data on the 29th, and it should be available on the WHO website; http://www.who.int. (Source http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/ScientifReview/en/index.html)

Current numbers according to WHO are as follows; As of 27 April 2009, the United States Government has reported 40 laboratory confirmed human cases of swine influenza A(H1N1), with no deaths. Mexico has reported 26 confirmed human cases of infection with the same virus, including seven deaths. Canada has reported six cases, with no deaths, while Spain has reported one case, with no deaths.

Anyhow, theres my share of the information, as I'm checking WHO and http://www.cdc.gov/ at least twice a day to keep current.

EDIT-->I'm noticing different numbers on the death toll coming from different sources. Most news-papers over here (London) differ from North American based sources, and WHO and CDC also have different numbers, so I really don't know.

[absolution]

7 more today.. in canada

[taylor192]

The mortality rate is supposed to be < 10%, I wonder why so many Mexicans are dieing.

If you're a healthy young person, you're probably fine. If you're unhealthy, have medical problems, or are older... well you're fucked. :thumbsup:

[wouwou]

The mortality rate is supposed to be < 10%, I wonder why so many Mexicans are dieing.

If you're a healthy young person, you're probably fine. If you're unhealthy, have medical problems, or are older... well you're fucked. :thumbsup:

I know people whine about the Canadian healthcare system, but compared to the Mexican one, we are in heaven

[absolution]

The mortality rate is supposed to be < 10%, I wonder why so many Mexicans are dieing.

If you're a healthy young person, you're probably fine. If you're unhealthy, have medical problems, or are older... well you're fucked. :thumbsup:

The current Influenza is known to target healthy young teen

[trip]

fear factor at its best...this is SARS all over again, how many did that kill.. 40? and how many people die from your average influenza virus a year? 4000?

plus while everyone is freaking out about this, no one will notice that the economy is slipping away ......

[RFlush]

fear factor at its best...this is SARS all over again, how many did that kill.. 40? and how many people die from your average influenza virus a year? 4000?

SARS killed 775 world wide (44 in Canada) from 8273 cases.

[johny]

Like everything, I'm sure the media is blowing things out of proportion. If it was a serious threat, the borders would be closed, and all travelers would be quarantined.



closing the borders loses millions of dollars for the countrys. can't afford to do it in these times.

a few dead people is cheaper for the Gov.

[will068]

I live in Mexico... Nothing to worry about(yet). The cases have all been in central mexico. I wouldnt worry about it if you were going to either coast. Use common sense and wash your hands alot and eat in clean places. Dont worry about eating pork as the flew travels from person to person.

Uhh no. The dude I went to high school with is now in the front page in the Vancouver Sun. He contracted it while he was in Cancun.

[ienhz]

was at metro today and already saw some fob looking (high school?) asian chick wearing a mask :lol

[LemonH2O]

They showed all the passengers arriving from asia to canada wearing full out SARS mask today at the airport.

[teaoh]

wow the media blows swine flu out of proportion. Its not even that big of a risk to the whole general population.

[danny_d19]

wow the media blows swine flu out of proportion. Its not even that big of a risk to the whole general population.
it's not like the media is saying we are all going to die, but a lot of people from canada travel to mexico around this time of year so it is a pretty serious concern. I was actually in the process of planning for 2 weeks down there with some friends, but not anymore

[wahyinghung]

This what we all need :http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/index2.html

[FS1992EG]

i doubt anyone would die from swine flu, most canadian are really healthy compared to mexico,I believe that the immune system of mexicans are not as strong as canadians that's why over 100 people are dead in mexico, if a healthy canadian dies from swine flu, it should be a red flag to health canada that this flu could be dangerous to the world

[Ch28]

this picture is fuckn awesome

This whole flu outbreak really scares me but this pic is freakin epic! teh win!:thumbsup:

Here is the original

Sorry for the large size

http://i44.tinypic.com/2ymx2k3.jpg

[Harvey Specter]

Hottie is the 3rd case in BC :(

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.vancouversun.com/health/victoria+woman+confirmed+third+case+swine/1539682/1542238.bin

VANCOUVER — With another B.C. resident confirmed to have swine flu Tuesday, public health officials said it’s reassuring there are only three cases in the province so far, a sign the virus is neither highly virulent nor contagious.

“It remains true that across Canada, there have been 13 cases, no hospitalizations and no deaths so far,” said Dr. Danuta Skowronski of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC).

“However, we’re monitoring for that possibility. We don’t want to be complacent. I expect there to be more cases. I expect there may be hospitalizations and deaths. That’s why we need to think ahead and prepare for that possibility.”

B.C.’s third confirmed case is Michelle Bossi, 30, of Victoria, who fell ill at a Cancun resort last Thursday and went to Royal Jubilee Hospital for testing on her return home Saturday.

“I’m fine,” Bossi said Tuesday afternoon after learning that her test results had been confirmed by BCCDC earlier in the day.

However, Bossi is concerned she may have inadvertently spread the virus after health professionals told her Saturday she was not contagious.

‘I’m annoyed I could have affected other people,” she said.

But the Vancouver Island Health Authority said all protocols were followed and, even though the swine flu situation was still evolving when Bossi first went to the hospital, there were no undue infection risks as she waited in Royal Jubilee Hospital emergency department or later visited a walk-in clinic.

“Our emergency department responded as would be expected. The management was appropriate,” said chief medical health officer Dr. Richard Stanwick.

Dr. Pamela Kibsey, VIHA medical director for microbiology and infection control, said those with the virus are most infectious the first two days, although they continue to be infectious for seven days, and Bossi was on her fourth day of illness before returning to Canada. That is also why initial tests, most effective in the first 48 hours of the illness, did not raise alarms, she said.

Skowronski refused to say how many other cases are now under investigation, a departure from a day earlier, when a BCCDC official said there were about six possible cases. The results of testing in those cases were not available Tuesday afternoon.

Skowronski said the number of possible cases wouldn’t be given because she doesn’t want the public to get “fixated” on numbers. “Remember we have put our health care system on high alert to be detecting influenza-like illness and our lab is responding to increased requests for lab tests. We have a number of reports we’re following up,” she said, noting that results are usually back within 48 hours, once nasal swabs and blood are collected.

The Vancouver Sun has disclosed that two of the three confirmed cases acquired swine flu while on holiday in Cancun, but Skowronski said public health officials are sticking to their plan not to disclose where affected patients have been because “we don’t want to mislead people into thinking there may be safe zones you can go in Mexico.

“As you know, Canada has now issued a travel health warning restricting non-essential travel to Mexico generally. We would prefer people to consider Mexico in its entirety as a possible risk area,” she added.

The BCCDC’s Dr. David Patrick said it is important to put into perspective the fact that each year, 400,000 to 800,000 B.C. residents get influenza, and as many as 1,400 die from it. Influenza outbreaks typically occur during winter months, so it is expected that even the swine influenza A (H1N1) should eventually fizzle out.

Until that happens, however, experts are reiterating the need for people with symptoms like fever and coughs to isolate themselves so as not to spread their germs.

Skowronski said she hopes the current public health threat helps change the culture so that if healthy bystanders see someone sick in schools or workplaces, they will say to the ill person: “‘You don’t look so good, maybe you should go home.’”

The swine influenza in humans is spread the same way as typical influenza — through coughing, sneezing and germs on the hands. Symptoms of swine flu are also the same as common strains of influenza — fever, lethargy, cough, lack of appetite, sore throat, runny nose, vomiting and diarrhea.

pfayerman@vancouversun.com

With file from Canwest News Service

© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun

[AAnthony]

Ive been in Mazatlan the past 5 days (west coast) and everyday i see more and more masks, hotel workers, chefs, even the fucking taxi drivers are wearing masks. Im still not too worried about it, Theres what, under 70 deaths attributed with swine flu. 7000 dead from the mexican drug trade.....Im more worried about dying in their shitty taxi cabs.

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

To avoid confusion with other respiratory illnesses, Santa Clara County's public health department released these specific conditions to be considered for swine-flu testing.


Symptoms must include a fever above 100°F or 37.8°C and one or more signs or symptoms including: head and body aches, cough, sore throat, chills, trouble breathing, and vomiting and/or diarrhea.


shit wat are the symptoms?
starting last night i started coughing than my throat starts feeling weird, really hard to describe

should i be worried? hell maybe im paranoid..sigh who knows
no fever tho

[VR6GTI]

To avoid confusion with other respiratory illnesses, Santa Clara County's public health department released these specific conditions to be considered for swine-flu testing.


Symptoms must include a fever above 100°F or 37.8°C and one or more signs or symptoms including: head and body aches, cough, sore throat, chills, trouble breathing, and vomiting and/or diarrhea.


shit wat are the symptoms?
starting last night i started coughing than my throat starts feeling weird, really hard to describe

should i be worried? hell maybe im paranoid..sigh who knows
no fever tho
Thats the problem someone gets the runs and they start thinking they have swine flu. Fuck i got the runs really bad but its expected from drinking at 10am to 2am for 7 days :haha:

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

i dont know my throat is really not feeling weird, never felt like this before in my life...



gonna go to a walk-in - clinic and see

[typeskk]

was at metro today and already saw some fob looking (high school?) asian chick wearing a mask :lol

Actually some ppl wear mask because they might have a flu and don't want to spread it around...

[threezero]

To avoid confusion with other respiratory illnesses, Santa Clara County's public health department released these specific conditions to be considered for swine-flu testing.


Symptoms must include a fever above 100°F or 37.8°C and one or more signs or symptoms including: head and body aches, cough, sore throat, chills, trouble breathing, and vomiting and/or diarrhea.


shit wat are the symptoms?
starting last night i started coughing than my throat starts feeling weird, really hard to describe

should i be worried? hell maybe im paranoid..sigh who knows
no fever tho

all those symptoms sounds like standard flu symptoms.... or hangover.

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

my god man i went to the walk in clinic just now the one in bentall 5 on burrad


2hours wait!!! holly shit


so i walk back to work..


god damn


thats the thing tho, it seems Swine symptons can be mistaken with a cold. Therefore very difficult to spot it? i dont know

[411ken]

Are there some sort of shot available to prevent it? (flu shot)??

And I think walk in clinics are ALWAYS busy haha. no matter where u go

[dL]

WHO raises pandemic level to 5.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/29/health-swine-flu-world285.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29/swine.flu/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8025931.stm

dL

[hoking]

situation feels like playing this game:

http://www.addictinggames.com/pandemic2.html

[orange7]

we should stop allow flights from mexico comming into canada

[Grandmaster TSE]

we should stop allow flights from mexico comming into canada

well they have to get all the canadians back first

[BoS_DC2]

I LOVE PORK!

[f00tzilla]

I LOVE PORK!

except this is not transmitted by eating pork..

[johny]

well they have to get all the canadians back first

who are probably all effected....

the WHO status has been rasied to 4 I think now? one more and all the airlines stop running.

[ienhz]

i believe it's at 5 - pandemic imminent

[impactX]

The Director-General of WHO, Margaret Chan, can lick my ass.

I can't believe that after mishandling the avian flu incidents time after time that led to 299 deaths in HK (when she was the Director of Health in Hong Kong), she's given the opportunity to fuck up more on a greater scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chan

[johny]

This just in. Mexican authority's have found the first human contact to get the swine virus and start the spreading.




































http://imgur.com/27K39.jpg

[Gridlock]

Jews, Muslims band together:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieHZRubAS3lyjn2GBiCPkXkHrXwwD97QROAG0

Your term is offensive to Jews, so we want to call it Mexican flu because that is only offensive to Mexicans.

Gotta love people's fucked up logic.

[StaxBundlez]

LEVEL 6 QUARANTINE IS COMMING


http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/TubbyTim/ba2.jpg?t=1241059857

[wahyinghung]

Reading material in this thread made me want to play more of Resident Evil 5 & Left 4 Dead

[wahyinghung]

The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to be on the lookout for fraudulent e-mails and websites trying to take advatage of the swine flu outbreak.

“Scammers read newspapers, watch TV and surf the Internet and they know that by using a hook from the day’s top headlines, that they’ll be able to catch lots of fish,” said Rosalind Scott of the Vancovuer Island Better Business Bureau. “Right now, issues associated with swine flu and a potential pandemic are of global interest and that means scammers have a very large pond to go phishing in.”

According to McAfee Avert Labs, an online security company, spammers began pumping out e-mails as soon as the first accounts of swine flu were being reported in the news, accounting for two per cent of all spam messages. The messages include such subject lines as, “Madonna caught swine flu” and “Swine flu in Hollywood” The company reports that the e-mails often link to online pharmacies.

According to online security company F-Secure Corp., more than 250 websites with the term swine flu have been registered within the first few days following the announcement of the outbreak and predict that the scams artists are preparing to use the sites in a variety of different online scams. F-Secure also reports that one site is already selling a Swine Flu Survival Guide PDF for $19.95.

BBB offers the following advice to avoid swine flu scams:

• Avoid opening e-mail from an unknown source and do not click on any links in the body of the e-mail or open any attachments. Instead, delete the e-mail or report it to the Federal Trade Commission by forwarding the e-mail to spam@uce.gov.

• Don't believe online offers for vaccinations against swine flu because a vaccine does not exist. For more information on swine flu and updates on progress in fighting the outbreak, go to www.nml-lnm.gc.ca/index-eng.htm

• Make sure your anti-virus and anti-spyware software is up to date and all operating system security patches have been installed.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Better+Business+Bureau+warns+swine+scams/1546860/story.html

[BimmiN]

Uhh no. The dude I went to high school with is now in the front page in the Vancouver Sun. He contracted it while he was in Cancun.

Yeah, I posted that a couple days ago before there were any confirmed cases outside of Mexico City... thats why I used the word "Yet":D

Ive been in Mazatlan the past 5 days (west coast) and everyday i see more and more masks, hotel workers, chefs, even the fucking taxi drivers are wearing masks. Im still not too worried about it, Theres what, under 70 deaths attributed with swine flu. 7000 dead from the mexican drug trade.....Im more worried about dying in their shitty taxi cabs.

Yeah, everyone in the service industry is supposed to wear a mask. Not a fan of the pulmonias(the open air cabs)? Most tourists love the novelty and want to ride those everywhere.
If you see an e36 M3 Cabrio driving by give me a wave... I wont be wearing a mask.

[dna82]

your run in the mill surgical mask won't do anything unless someone coughs into your mouth and somehow misses your eyes. there's no point in using them.

just stop touching your faces unless you've washed your hand with 70% iso or etho alcohol.

[orange7]

well they have to get all the canadians back first

ya.. can't canada send a message to all canadians in mexico to quickly get tested and return to homeland (canada)? And only canadians are allowed to fly into canada from mexico, this will reduce those infected non-canadians trying to escape the spread of the flu.

[twitchyzero]

http://imgur.com/27K39.jpg
OH NOES!11

[InvisibleSoul]

I have an irritated throat and had a little bit of fatigue and chills. Am I dying? :scared

[Great68]

Instead of closing the borders completely, why can't they just put anyone coming back from mexico into quarantine until they are confirmed to be flu free?

[Lomac]

Found out today that a co-worker's sister contracted this virus. She was in Mexico a couple weeks ago with her family, yet the sister was the only one out of 'em all to contract it. The only thing she had done differently than the others was that she visited one of the farmers markets. Asides from typical flu symptoms, though, she's fine. Health Canada (or whatever the department is) is going to her house and doing a thorough disinfect of her house.

[orange7]

Found out today that a co-worker's sister contracted this virus. She was in Mexico a couple weeks ago with her family, yet the sister was the only one out of 'em all to contract it. The only thing she had done differently than the others was that she visited one of the farmers markets. Asides from typical flu symptoms, though, she's fine. Health Canada (or whatever the department is) is going to her house and doing a thorough disinfect of her house.

this year health care is going to be costly..
next time i see any chance of donation to them, i'll throw in my loose change

[wahyinghung]

as an FYI, Obama was in Mexico city 1-2 weeks ago?, the first death was the day after he left, and some of the people who died came in direct contact with obama during his visit...

let the conspiracies start.

someone let the virius go in mexico city trying to kill him?..

Or maybe the US let it go?...

seeing it's a combination of a few different viruses, being man made isn't out of the question.

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Department of Energy employee who was part of President Barack Obama's delegation for his recent trip to Mexico came down with flu-like symptoms, and subsequently infected three family members with probable cases of swine flu, the White House said Thursday.

Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, said the man never flew on Air Force One and has since recovered and returned to work.

But revelations of the case struck close to home for a president and an administration that has urged vigilance among Americans to protect themselves from potential exposure to the H1N1 virus.

The U.S. administration official in question was a member of the lead security detail for U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu during Obama's visit to Mexico City on April 16 and 17.

According to Gibbs, the man arrived in Mexico on April 13 and began to feel ill on April 16. He developed a fever the next day and then returned to the U.S. aboard a commercial airline April 18. He attended a working dinner in Mexico that Obama attended but never "came within six feet" of the president, Gibbs said.

Neither Obama nor Chu experienced any symptoms.

Gibbs said it was "highly, highly, highly unlikely" that any other members of the administration or travelling press corps would be infected with the virus because so much time has elapsed since the Mexico trip.

After the Energy Department employee arrived back in the U.S., he is believed to have infected his wife, young son and a nephew. The mother and son tested "probable" for swine flu on April 28, but "all four individuals experienced only mild symptoms, and all four have recovered," said Gibbs.

Even as the White House offered reassurances about the president's health, aides were conducting damage control over remarks made early Thursday by Vice-President Joe Biden.

During an appearance on the Today Show, Biden said he had told his own family to avoid airplanes and subways because of the swine flu — contradicting U.S. health officials' recommendations and Obama's own statement that there was no reason for Americans to panic.

"I would tell members of my family — and I have — that I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now," Biden said, when asked what he would tell his family about travel to Mexico, where the flu virus originated.

"It's not just going to Mexico, it's (if) you're in a confined aircraft — when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway."

The Centers for Disease Control has recommended against non-essential travel to Mexico, but has not discouraged other travel or use of public transit in the U.S.

The White House offered a clarification after travel industry officials condemned the remark.

"The advice he is giving family members is the same advice the administration is giving to all Americans: that they should avoid unnecessary air travel to and from Mexico," said Elizabeth Alexander, Biden's spokeswoman. "If they are sick, they should avoid airplanes and other confined public spaces, such as subways."
http://www.vancouversun.com/Travel/official+caught+Obama+Mexico+trip/1550513/story.html

[flameboy54]

BC School Closes because of H1N1 Flu
Vancouver/CKNW(AM980)

4/30/2009

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall is urging parents not to panic, but to take basic common sense precautions to control the spread of the H1-N1 virus.

Kendall says parents should consider the H1-N1 virus an extension of the regular flu, and keep kids home of they show symptoms...He's stressing hand washing and the usual basic hygiene measures. And despite the headlines Kendall says everyone needs to calm down.

But a Vernon school has shut down for a week after a student was diagnosed with the virus--the child has a mild case and is recovering at home.


It'll be interesting to see how many other schools close down in the next week or two

[BimmiN]

ya.. can't canada send a message to all canadians in mexico to quickly get tested and return to homeland (canada)? And only canadians are allowed to fly into canada from mexico, this will reduce those infected non-canadians trying to escape the spread of the flu.

Because many of the Canadians are trying to get out the costs of flights are starting to skyrocket... a week ago I could have caught a direct oneway flight from here to Vancouver for $89 plus tax... now the same flight is $700+ plus taxes.
I still personally think that it is overkill to flee the country when it is in Canada as well... but I respect people opinions and reactions.

[johny]

here is a constantly updated map. looks like BC is up to 13 confirmed infections

http://www.idemc.org/index.php?area=

[murd0c]

do you think this flu could be a test? spread a flu thats not all too bad (only kills a coulple 100 people and gets people sick like we see) and you that to see how this would travel around the world by planting in the country with one of the worlds largest tourist popluations.

Who ever can then use that as a way to plan for a actual deadly outbreak and the best plans of attack so something doesn't happen like in the movie 12 monkeys.

Just something I thought of just now.

[orange7]

do you think this flu could be a test? spread a flu thats not all too bad (only kills a coulple 100 people and gets people sick like we see) and you that to see how this would travel around the world by planting in the country with one of the worlds largest tourist popluations.

Who ever can then use that as a way to plan for a actual deadly outbreak and the best plans of attack so something doesn't happen like in the movie 12 monkeys.

Just something I thought of just now.

this sounds crazy, but it's a possibility

[The_AK]

Its time for the collectors to start gathering the tainted. A quarantine with the doomed will be established.
Watch out for the collectors.
http://www.pleaselink.me/_/myconfinedspace/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/soldiers-in-gas-masks-500x375.jpg
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0d8IdH7fhG2t8/610x.jpg

They also plan on setting loose German Shepard K9 units.
http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/LIFPOD/845118~Soldier-and-German-Shepard-Wearing-Gas-Masks-for-Chemical-Warfare-Maneuvers-Posters.jpg

The prophecies are becoming true.

[Dan_Guy]

Collector SN:6742334 Reporting in

http://media.msanet.com/www/images/MSAPoliceLine/SWAT-InGear2.jpg

[thumper]

i hope this isn't a repost....

http://www.revscene.net/forums/picture.php?albumid=150&pictureid=1121

[Harvey Specter]

Killarney student among B.C.'s 15 confirmed swine flu cases

http://www.vancouversun.com/Life/Killarney+student+among+confirmed+swine+cases/1550331/story.html

[twitchyzero]

^ wow omg
i just got a phone call from that school for my sibling..but i dindt listen to it carefully.

[shenmecar]

what the hell!

[pandalove]

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0d8IdH7fhG2t8/610x.jpg

MORE PICS OF THAT CHICK IN THE BACK!!!

[Meowjin]

^you have horrible taste.

but here i found a pic

http://www.epk.com/wp-content/uploads/horses-ass1.jpg

[ienhz]

:Puke:

[orange7]

Killarney student among B.C.'s 15 confirmed swine flu cases

http://www.vancouversun.com/Life/Killarney+student+among+confirmed+swine+cases/1550331/story.html

that student is going to get beat up when he returns to school

[wahyinghung]

^:D
Scientists have traced the genetic lineage of the new H1N1 swine flu to a strain that emerged in 1998 in U.S. factory farms, where it spread and mutated at an alarming rate. Experts warned then that a pocket of the virus would someday evolve to infect humans, perhaps setting off a global pandemic.

The new findings challenge recent protests by pork industry leaders and U.S., Mexican and United Nations agriculture officials that industrial farms shouldn’t be implicated in the new swine flu, which has killed up to 176 people and on Thursday was declared an imminent pandemic by the World Health Organization.

“Industrial farms are super-incubators for viruses,” said Bob Martin, former executive director of the Pew Commission on Industrial Animal Farm Production, and a long-time critic of the so-called “contained animal feeding operations.”

As Wired.com reported on Tuesday, geneticists studying the composition of viruses taken from swine flu victims described it as the product of a DNA swap between North American and Eurasian swine flu strains.

On Wednesday, Columbia University biomedical informaticist Raul Rabadan added new information on the virus’ family history in a posting to ProMed, a public health mailing list. His description paralleled that of other researchers who had analyzed the new strains, but with an extra bit of detail. Six of the genes in swine flu looked to be descended from “H1N2 and H3N2 swine viruses isolated since 1998.”

Experts contacted by Wired.com agreed with Rabadan’s analysis. For researchers who track the evolution of influenza viruses, the news was chilling.

H3N2 — the letters denote specific gene variants that code for replication-enhancing enzymes — is the name of a hybrid first identified in North Carolina in 1998, the tail end of a decade which saw the state’s hog production rise from two million to 10 million, even as the number of farms dropped. H3N2 originated in a relatively benign swine flu strain first identified in 1918, but had absorbed new genes from bird and human flus.

These new genes provided replication advantages that allowed the hybrid to permeate densely packed pig farms whose inhabitants were routinely shipped across the United States. That rapid replication rate also increased the chances of strains evolving in ways that allowed them to evade hog immune systems.

Within a year, exposures topped 90 percent in several heartland states. A retrospective news account in Science said that “after years of stability, the North American swine flu virus had jumped on an evolutionary fast track.”

At the genetic level, the years that followed remain a mystery — hog flus are poorly monitored, compared to human influenza. But eventually an H3N2 spawn merged with a strain of Eurasian pig flu, producing the swine flu variant that’s now infecting humans.

At an environmental level, the conditions which shaped H3N2 and H1N2 evolution, and increased the variants’ chances of taking a human-contagious form, are well understood. High-density animal production facilities came to dominate the U.S. pork industry during the late 20th century, and have been adopted around the world. Inside them, pigs are packed so tightly that they cannot turn, and literally stand in their own waste.

Diseases travel rapidly through such immunologically stressed populations, and travel with the animals as they are shuttled throughout the United States between birth and slaughter. That provides ample opportunity for strains to mingle and recombine. An ever-escalating array of industry-developed vaccines confer short-term protection, but at the expense of provoking flu to evolve in unpredictable ways.

The Pew commission concluded that this system created an “increased chance for a strain to emerge that can infect and spread in humans.” Scientists and public health experts have said the same thing for years, in even starker terms.

In 2003, the American Public Health Association called for a ban on contained animal feeding operations. One year later, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital virologist Richard Webby, one of the original chroniclers of H3N2’s emergence, called the U.S. swine population “an increasingly important reservoir of viruses with human pandemic potential.” United States Department of Agriculture researcher Amy Vincent reportedly said that vaccine-driven evolution created a “potential for pandemic influenza emergence in North America.”

Officials and the pork industry argued this week that a direct link hadn’t been found to pigs, and that the new flu strain had yet to be found in farm animals or workers, both in the United States and at a giant hog factory near the outbreak’s epicenter in La Gloria, Mexico. Owned by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the largest U.S. pork producer and a notorious polluter, the factory processes one million hogs each year.

As of now, neither swine flu nor its close relatives have been found anywhere. But “that probably says more about the lack of sampling in pig flu than anything else,” said Andrew Rambaut, a University of Edinburgh viral geneticist who has studied swine flu. “We don’t sample nearly the complete diversity of pig flu around the world. Most outbreaks go unstudied.”

On Thursday, Reuters called concern with “evil factory farms in Mexico” one of many “wild theories,” on a par with a conspiracy between Al Qaeda and Mexican drug cartels. Indeed, the location may yet prove coincidental. But absence of evidence at the factory and elsewhere is not evidence of absence.

The new swine flu could have emerged in a myriad number of ways, passing between any number of birds and pigs and people, at locations across North America, during its evolutionary journey. It may well prove impossible to pinpoint exactly where it first emerged or became infectious to people. But most of its genes are almost certainly part of a North American industrial virus lineage long expected to produce pandemic variants like this one.

“We haven’t found evidence of infected pigs,” said Ian Lipkin, a Columbia University epidemiologist and member of the World Health Organization’s surveillance network. “But even if we never find that smoking pig, we can surmise that this is probably where it came from.”

The circumstances “are certainly enough to warrant asking questions,” said Lipkin. “The question, then, is how deeply do you want to look to try to find the evidence?”
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/swineflufarm/

[bengy]

I guess it's no surprise. Pig farms are horrible.

[orange7]

let's all stop eating McDicks so the pig market will decrease, leading to a cut in pig farms

[RRxtar]

let's all stop eating McDicks so the pig market will decrease, leading to a cut in pig farms
http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/facepalm.jpg

[Razor Ramon HG]

Don't the majority of McDonalds' products contain beef?

[mmvito]

swine flu turning victims into zombies??

:rolleyes:
http://bouncewith.me.uk/europe/8027043.htm

[-EuroRSN-]

^ dude holy! wheres my shotty fuck just remember stick together and we will win hahaha

[mmvito]

yea time to get myself a shotgun... according to that article/news there's 12 zombies in mexico :haha:

[Meowjin]

:facepalm:

[Grimist]

remember to grab health packs before leaving the safe house

[orange7]

Don't the majority of McDonalds' products contain beef?


oh ya..lol.. my bad haha

[twitchyzero]

swine flu turning victims into zombies??

:rolleyes:
http://bouncewith.me.uk/europe/8027043.htm

shittt..i got trixx'd :haha: