Resident Evil; Pig Flu Outbreak

[Godammlover]

We have more comfirmations over in UK.

The swine flu, is like a bad flu.
Rest and anti-biotics will just solve the problem... Its the fact that if the virus mutates it will be harder for us to cure it.

Thus, Im going to go out in a rubber ball. NOTHING WILL GET ME ;3

 

[echoey]

simpsons haha

 

[Godammlover]

Nuhhh.
Not the bubble!

Like a hamster, but no holes.. But tis like, I dont have to breathe

 

[BillyCoenJCR1418]

^Bubbleboy!

Wouldn't it be crazy if the "pig" virus was man-made? T-virus, here we come!

 

[Deleted member 1428]

Maybe it was

 

[Romero]

It's less aggressive than we first feared, that's good. But viruses can change suddenly, it can turn really nasty later.

This was the last thing the world needed right now, in the middle of a recession. This can potentially hurt the world's overall production more than the credit crunch. We are seeing indications of it in the stockmarket already.

 

[La Femme Fatale]

You have to understand some people express their emotions differently; some people need to make jokes of something or some topic to kind of feel better about it. We can't all be serious (stick-up ass) people.
Who wants to consistently dwell and worry over sad events every time they come on the computer to chat with buddies?

While I understand what you are saying, Star, and I do partially agree- at the same time I doubt that a discussion over porn usage is an adequate way of trying to 'feel better' about the swine influenza. I don't entirely mind the jokes that are on-topic, but hijacking the topic so far as to make it about porn wasn't really necessary. It just could have been done elsewhere, is all I'm trying to say.

Anyway, I am beginning to get quite concerned over the swine flu in Canada. I heard that one school has been closed down since a student had picked it up and apparently passed it on to some classmates. I think a while ago there were only six cases, and now it's risen to fifty-one.

 

[dark_zero]

me too im a canadian and i researched and it looks like alot of cases are coming up here in canada and i have become worried because in 2 months ill be moving to pei and theys already outbreaks over their and i dont want to get this and they say they might not have a vaccine till 3-4mths and the virus could turn for the worst by than

 

[Romero]

First confirmed case in Sweden Wednesday. A woman got the swine flu on a journey to the US. She was ill for only 3 days. That sounds less serious than a normal flu. :huh:

 

[echoey]

so three days an she died?

 

[Romero]

so three days an she died?

LOL, no.
3 days and she's getting well. I now see that my post could be misunderstood. :lol:

 

[ResidentZelda]

Yeah that's what I though at first. Then I got a flu and my mom took me immediatly to the hospital but then it turned out that it was a common cold. Because here outside of the DC the weather is pretty screwed up so it was raining (again) and I walked outside barefoot and with a short sleeved t-shir so yeah the perfect combination for the flu.

 

[Romero]

To most victims, the flu is just a little bit worse than a normal flu. But now and then we hear about people who actually die, or are very very ill. Young, strong people with good health before they fell ill. Those few stories are what makes me a bit worried when I hear them.


On the news last night, we heard about a guy in Sweden who became life-threathening ill.
He was laid in a respirator, but even that could not help him. The machine would breathe for him, but the lungs were unable to make the blood pick up oxygen.
It was when I heard this that I for the first time got worried about this.

So the respirator makes the lungs "breathe", still you can suffocate because the blood aren't taking up the oxygen. That's scary to think about.

They had to rush him to another hospital, where they have got some very advanced equipment, that basically works as a mechanical lung outside the body. They don't know if he'll survive.
I think they said that the total number of such machines are 13 in the whole country. I live in Norway but it's not very far away.
He's lucky it's 2009 and not 1990.


I hope ChrisRedfield1994 is doing okay.

 

[wpstudart]

Here in Brazil we have like, 17 victims.

Thank god, I'm secure by now. I hope everyone that the swine flu gets better, it's a terrible ill. First I though that was a normal flu, but easily transmitted. Then I started hearing that I really worse, but people will get better. It's already a pandemic disease right? *Starts to get worry*

And worst for Brazilian, the vaccine will only come out next year, so I'm thinking in having a trip and getting the vaccine.

I know I shouldn't be doing this stupid joke, but at least it doesn't turn people in zombies. Otherwise we would be very screwed. (I feel sorry for myself in thinking things like that ¬¬)

 

[Romero]

Here in Brazil we have like, 17 victims.

When you put it that way, I realize that "victims" means fatalities. When I used the word "victim" in my above post, I simply meant people who got ill. So it wasn't literally.

I don't think anyone has died here yet, but I'm not sure.

 

[wpstudart]

Yeah, I wrote wrong, I wanted to say 17 fatalities. There a suspicion of a sanitary inspector (is how we say in English?) died mysteriously, they send the body to the IML, where they discover the cause of the dead. They think he was the first to die here. Near where I live, but I live in the countryside, thank god. Hope he didn't die of it, because he was 27 or 26 if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Romero]

he was 27 or 26 if I'm not mistaken

Young people are hit the hardest, so it would not surprise me if was this flu he died of.

 

[wpstudart]

Yeah, if 26 is where they hit the hardest, imagine children, 7 year old.

Ah, I don't want to act like the 'smart-ass' but the pig flu is now called 'Flu type A'? At least in Brazil they call that way, to people don't think that you can't eat pig (the meat of pig of course).

 

[Romero]

Type A? They call it H1N1 or something like that here, but "svine flu" is just as common.

Of course the virus can't live in dead meat. I don't know why so many people believes that, maybe it's a question about education.

In Egypt, the government ordered all pigs to be slaughtered. It's concerning when authority bodies doesn't understand the 'business' they are in charge of. One should expect them to be at least somewhat educated.
Maybe it's politics and not science behind their decission, and if so, it's a different topic.

 

[wpstudart]

The name is Influenza A, and the virus is name H1N1 by some reasons, which I don't remember why.

The sales of pig meat got down like, 45% here. Can't believe how people can be so naive.