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Snoopy
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Post subject: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:42 am |
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news.com.au wrote: Swine flu has 'pandemic potential'
A NEW flu virus that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico could start a global epidemic, the World Health Organization warned on Saturday as the disease spread further in the United States.
Australia's health protection officials, including chief medical officer Jim Bishop, are today holding talks on how to guard the nation from the pig flu outbreak in Mexico and the US.
The Department of Health and Ageing is liaising with the WHO, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health experts, a spokeswoman for the department says.
"Anyone that has returned from Mexico with influenza-like symptoms since March this year should seek advice from their general practitioner or public health unit," she said. Let's hope this doesn't spread too far. It would be horrible just like the 1918 Influenza Pandemic which killed more people than World War One (Influenza Pandemic killed 20-40 million people.
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:48 am |
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atleast its in mexico right now and nowhere else
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:50 am |
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.AWAKE. wrote: atleast its in mexico right now and nowhere else isn't there an american university that got hit by something?
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:51 am |
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yeah in new york, i think 15 people or something got it, saw it on the news, and there are highly suspicious cases in Massachusetts and Minnesota.
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:16 am |
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.AWAKE. wrote: atleast its in mexico right now and nowhere else actually, there's already been several cases in the U.S.
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:32 am |
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i'll survive....
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:37 am |
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I almost, ALMOST thought that for once you were gonna post a thread that didn't have anything tot do with Australia, but then i read the second sentence and there it is! OT: heard of it on the news, good thing my family doesn't like to travel  ........ 
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:41 am |
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:45 am |
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seriously mexico cant get any more fucked up than it already is...
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:58 am |
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I don't eat pork. So I'm good 
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:30 am |
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Tasdik wrote: I don't yet pork. So I'm good  right... viruses are spreaded through food
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:35 am |
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user wrote: Tasdik wrote: I don't eat pork. So I'm good  right... viruses are spreaded through food *shrugs* Wow, I don't know how I spelled yet when I meant to say eat. 
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:48 am |
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Quote: Eleven cases have been confirmed in California, Kansas and Texas, and eight schoolchildren in New York City caught a type A influenza virus that was likely to be the swine flu, health officials said on Saturday.
The last flu pandemic was in 1968 when "Hong Kong" flu killed about 1 million people globally. Basically, it's inevitable. It is going to happen. It's already been said that it is going to get to Australia, with suspected cases in New Zealand. The only way to prevent it getting to Australia would be stop all flights, and ships. In a time like this, there's no chance of that happening. I just hope it won't be extremely deadly.
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:57 am |
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M3K0S wrote: there are lots of people with the flu here in southern california... so you gotta watch out okay smarty pants, whats the difference between flu and cold?
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:00 am |
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the flu is really only a danger to the young and the old everyone else in between should be fine unless they are extremely unhealthy. Like i said, i'll survive, and so will most people...this is not a big deal....
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:05 am |
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XemnasXD wrote: the flu is really only a danger to the young and the old everyone else in between should be fine unless they are extremely unhealthy. Like i said, i'll survive, and so will most people...this is not a big deal.... phew. They're saying however, that it's been seen a lot in Young Adults though. Perhaps that's just in Mexico where they're unhealthy ;x I don't know. Never really had to worry about a possible pandemic before.
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:08 am |
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Unlike 1918, we actually have things that can keep people alive.
Oh, and minutemen, grab your guns and guard the borders.
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:09 am |
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maybe you guys are to young to remember the Bird Flu scare....this stuff happens....no need to panic, you'd think the media would be more responsible with the this...at least the BBC, i expect everyone to start spelling doom...
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:10 am |
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Pointless fear mongering.
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:14 am |
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XemnasXD wrote: maybe you guys are to young to remember the Bird Flu scare....this stuff happens....no need to panic, you'd think the media would be more responsible with the this...at least the BBC, i expect everyone to start spelling doom... I know the Bird flu and I think Sars. I don't know if Sars is a flu, but meh. I think Baro is quite right though.
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:39 am |
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user wrote: M3K0S wrote: there are lots of people with the flu here in southern california... so you gotta watch out okay smarty pants, whats the difference between flu and cold? what? i was never trying to be smart? looks like sum1 needs to learn how to read!
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:07 am |
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Barotix wrote: Pointless fear mongering. Snoopy wrote: XemnasXD wrote: maybe you guys are to young to remember the Bird Flu scare....this stuff happens....no need to panic, you'd think the media would be more responsible with the this...at least the BBC, i expect everyone to start spelling doom... I know the Bird flu and I think Sars. I don't know if Sars is a flu, but meh. I think Baro is quite right though. And with that my panic level has gone back to minimal.
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:16 am |
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oh shit the world's gonna end!
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:24 am |
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TOloseGT wrote: oh shit the world's gonna end! ROFL.. Let's not get hysterical
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:21 am |
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Well thats odd. Yesterday I was playing Pandemic 2 and I started off with mexico.
Didn't get very far though, Damn US closed its borders and mexico killed itself off xD
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:29 am |
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I CANT TAKE THIS ANYMORE /holds a gun pointed at my head
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Post subject: Re: [NEWS] New flu on the rise! Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:47 am |
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Squirt wrote: Well thats odd. Yesterday I was playing Pandemic 2 and I started off with mexico.
Didn't get very far though, Damn US closed its borders and mexico killed itself off xD lmao ah we'll see what happens.
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