A NEW INFLUENZA PANDEMIC?

[Pandy]

What's the story with this new influenza virus that has broken out in Mexico? I've read that 1300 people have been infected and 70+ people have died already, and of the deceased an unusually high proportion were considered fit and healthy.

The virus is a new variety which is said to be a mix of all known influenza types - avian, swine and human - so not only does it spread from animal-animal but also animal-human and then human-human - highly contagious.

Whats the story in your neck of the woods?

[Bali Muncher Jim]

Its up to 90 odd deaths now, luckily for us its still far away from the UK but I guess that could soon change, quite scarey stuff :(

[ShaggyMaengDa]

luckily for us its still far away from the UK (

There's an air steward who flies the UK-Mexico route who was admittted to a London hospital with it on either Friday or Saturday actually = it's already here.:(

[Bali Muncher Jim]

There's an air steward who flies the UK-Mexico route who was admittted to a London hospital with it on either Friday or Saturday actually = it's already here.:(

Shit, thats not good!

[Spaced out]

And thats me thinking the virus and bugs they have in hospital's are bad enough!

[Pandy]

Its up to 90 odd deaths now, luckily for us its still far away from the UK but I guess that could soon change, quite scarey stuff :(

going on what little i've read that death count is heading towards a 10% fatality rate :(

[Fresh from watching Esoteric Agenda and Kymatica the conspiracy cogs started working overtime - especially the chapters on world population needing to be reduced by a fifth through managed starvation and disease]

I started this thread in the Alt Thinking section because I had read on an obscure forum someone who sounded quite knowledgeable on the Influenza virus believed that while it was possible for those strains to finally come together (avian+swine+human) the probability was incredibly low, he said less than a 1 in a Billion natural chance of occurring. Other people had interpreted this to mean that maybe that this particular strain, unusual as it is, was created by people and not nature.

[excee]

coming to a town near you
Canada has become the latest country to confirm cases of the virus in humans after as many as 81 deaths in Mexico and 20 non-lethal cases in the US.
Ten New Zealand students from a group which visited Mexico have tested positive for Influenza A, making it "likely" they are infected with swine flu

In France, a top health official told Le Parisien newspaper there were unconfirmed suspicions that two individuals who had just returned from Mexico might be carrying the virus

Spain's health ministry says three people who returned from a trip from Mexico with flu symptoms are in isolation and being tested
In Israel, medics are testing a 26-year-old man who has been taken to hospital with flu-like symptoms after returning from a trip to Mexico

[Spaced out]

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[excee]

Pigs are incubators for the influenza viruses and can be infected with more than one type of virus from different species this is why they are believed to be critical in the evolution of new influenza flu viruses that can jump the "species barrier" from animals into humans to cause pandemic flu
viruses infecting the same animal can, in effect, have a form of sex whereby viral genes are exchanged between different viruses to produce novel forms of flu that can emerge with potentially devastating effect for the human population also the main danger of a new flu virus emerging from pigs is that it would not be recognised by the human immune system and so result in severe infections that could quickly spread from one person to another - existing flu viruses circulating in the population are by contrast usually relatively mild. Scientists fear that the strain of swine flu in Mexico which appears to have jumped the species barrier into humans may have developed an efficient form of transmission that enables it to pass quickly from one person to another.

BBC
FLU PANDEMICS
1918: The Spanish flu pandemic remains the most devastating outbreak of modern times - infecting up to 40% of the world's population and killing more than 50m people, with young adults particularly badly affected


1957: Asian flu killed two million people. Caused by a human form of the virus, H2N2, combining with a mutated strain found in wild ducks. The elderly were particularly vulnerable


1968: An outbreak first detected in Hong Kong, and caused by a strain known as H3N2, killed up to one million people globally, with those over 65 most likely to die

[evaporates]

:cool:kill all the swine :cool:

[Spaced out]

its funny cause humans now have bird flu.

[Dez IndO]

fuck.. you se the crazy egyp muslims killing all pigs in the country ?

fucking crazy bunch , it has nothing to do with pigs , fuck ..

but why should they care , they dont eat pork anyway..