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Swine Flu: USA reports first death
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Originally posted by Troll View PostIt will be interesting to see if the 23month old who died in the US was Hispanic, could they have less resistance to the virus than gringos?Comment
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so lets get this straight a stunning about what 100 people have died of this new killer out of a total global population of erm what about 6 billion so lets see that means that oooh 0.000016% of the human race so far has caught this bug....
you may be suprised to find that i think the add are still heavily stacked against contracting this desease never mind dying from it.
in addition to this we only know about this sort of thing because of increased global communications
if an outbreak of swine flu appeared in the 50, 60 and 70's in Mexico or some other faraway place then I am pretty sure we in the UK would never have heard of it.
it is just scaremongering bobbins which gives the medya the opportunity to trot all sorts of so called experts to give there particularly pointless opinions.
I have sympathy for the people who are dead and dying but hey - they will probably find they are part of a large number of people who will die today/tomorrow/the next day/the next week etc from non natural causes.
I wish everyone would just fe<k off with this popular panic stoking and get back to drinking beer, watching football and shagging birds.Comment
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Originally posted by original PM View Postso lets get this straight a stunning about what 100 people have died of this new killer out of a total global population of erm what about 6 billion so lets see that means that oooh 0.000016% of the human race so far has caught this bug....
you may be suprised to find that i think the add are still heavily stacked against contracting this desease never mind dying from it.
in addition to this we only know about this sort of thing because of increased global communications
if an outbreak of swine flu appeared in the 50, 60 and 70's in Mexico or some other faraway place then I am pretty sure we in the UK would never have heard of it.
it is just scaremongering bobbins which gives the medya the opportunity to trot all sorts of so called experts to give there particularly pointless opinions.
I have sympathy for the people who are dead and dying but hey - they will probably find they are part of a large number of people who will die today/tomorrow/the next day/the next week etc from non natural causes.
I wish everyone would just fe<k off with this popular panic stoking and get back to drinking beer, watching football and shagging birds.
WHS!!!!!!!!!Comment
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death by face mask?
Saw them live at Torture Garden (where else ?)Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. LewisComment
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Dr Colin Fink (Micropathology Ltd) writes roday...
"It does seem strange that it has been associated with a high mortality in Mexico but not so far elsewhere. One has to ask whether the deaths are primary 'flu deaths ( as in the 1919 outbreak which killed fit young people in 3 - 4 days) or whether these deaths are in a group who have suboptimal nutrition and may have had secondary ( or existing) bacterial infections which were the cause of the mortality?
Another possibility is the presence for more than one strain but still H1N1 . One not very easy for humans to catch except by close contact with pigs, but very pathogenic in humans, and the other far more easily transferred between man and man but much less virulent. If you are a parasite/pathogen, it pays not to kill your host - your chances of genetic persistence (what each species is about) are diminished if you kill the vehicle.
Most new pathogens which jump species, recognise this maxim and quickly become less virulent within the new species."Comment
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