SWINE FLU PANDEMIC? Mx, NY, TX, KS...

[artsyrobin]

i read an article on it,
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97P0VS00&show_article=1
and what has them concerned is that

disturbing virus that combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before.

it has no vaccine, they are even recommending people in mexico to have no physical contact as simple as a handshake...

i am of a suspicious nature, not trusting the media to give us the whole story so go looking for more specifics....​

 

[australorpchick]

Actually, in Texas, it was two teenagers in San Antonio, who, last I've read, hadn't traveled anywhere. The professionals are still trying to find out how they got it. It's supposed to have the characteristics of human, avian and swine viruses.

 

[claud]

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I was kidding about kissing pigs.

 

[Mahonri]

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Mild as in 60 of those "healthy adults" are now DEAD.

Redhen, protect your pets! and yourself!... we can't afford to lose you!

 

[claud]

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Mild as in 60 of those "healthy adults" are now DEAD.

Redhen, protect your pets! and yourself!... we can't afford to lose you!

That may be similar to the death rate in a "normal" influenza outbreak in Mexico.
The regular old "flu" is deadly too - has been forever.

 

[WriterofWords]

Welcome to Chaparral, NM, land of "On the Border", this all we've heard about for day, but we haven't seen any real evidence around here, mostly just panic inducing news on TV.

 

[Mahonri]

I normally don't watch CNN because they don't know how to report honestly nor accurately, but all they have on at this point is Swine Flu coverage in NY and San Antonio and Kansas.

Makes you wonder if it's birds flying north carrying it.

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

*shivers*

I FREAKED when the whole bird flu thing was being talked about a couple of years ago and it came to nothing. Oh and I freaked about SARS.
Now I don't know whether I should worry or not.

I just know I don't want it anywhere near my family!

 

[Im4Eggcellence]

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Mild as in 60 of those "healthy adults" are now DEAD.

Redhen, protect your pets! and yourself!... we can't afford to lose you!

That may be similar to the death rate in a "normal" influenza outbreak in Mexico.
The regular old "flu" is deadly too - has been forever.

Normal flu is deadly, but mostly to the extremely young and old. The reports are that this is a new strain which has managed to combine genetic sequences from swine, avian, and human flu - and it's killing healthy individuals in their 20's to 40's, which is how the 1918 pandemic began.

Hopefully, this will fizzle, but the CDC now believes that it's already too widespread to contain locally and the World Health Organization is about to declare a World Health Event of International Concern.

 

[Mahonri]

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Exactly why we need to be concerned and take precautions.

... and I'm going to Church tomorrow with a bunch of Mexicans... I hope they haven't been there lately.

... makes me want to ask any of my patients next week, "Have you been in NY, KS, TX or MX in the past two weeks"... and if they have, reappoint them for another time.

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Just read this on Drudge:

The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.

Had this been "W" we know who the drive/by media would have been blaming.​