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Some say it could end up being worse than SARS!

A possible global epidemic, does this thought scare anyone else?

Any comments? I hope it doesnt hit Australia!

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Governments around the world rushed on Sunday to check the spread of a new type of swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico and infected around a dozen in the United States.

Mexicans huddled inside their homes while U.S. hospitals tracked patients with flu symptoms and other countries imposed health checks at airports as the World Health Organisation warned the virus had the potential to become a pandemic.

Announced on Friday , the outbreak has snowballed into a monster headache for Mexico , already grappling with a violent drug war and economic slowdown, and has quickly become one of the biggest global health scares in years.

Mexico flu epidemic fear grows - Yahoo!7 News
 
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It looks pretty serious - it transmits human-human, rather than bird-human like the avian influenza did. It sounds pretty virulent too.
 
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Schroedinger said:
U.S. swine flu same strain as Mexican virus
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Reading the comments for that article i came across this and thought it was an interesting view of things
Moegames Says:
April 25th, 2009 at 5:27 am
sign of the times, the end is coming, how people cant see that or grasp that totally baffles me. Open your eye’s people … everything happening in the world today was already foretold in the Gospels…
Keep a close eye on the news…its all gonna get worse very quickly and im not referring to j swine flu virusust this… im referring to all things

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Guesss said:
Reading the comments for that article i came across this and thought it was an interesting view of things
Moegames Says:
April 25th, 2009 at 5:27 am
sign of the times, the end is coming, how people cant see that or grasp that totally baffles me. Open your eye’s people … everything happening in the world today was already foretold in the Gospels…
Keep a close eye on the news…its all gonna get worse very quickly and im not referring to j swine flu virusust this… im referring to all things

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Ha.
 
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Guesss said:
Reading the comments for that article i came across this and thought it was an interesting view of things
Moegames Says:
April 25th, 2009 at 5:27 am
sign of the times, the end is coming, how people cant see that or grasp that totally baffles me. Open your eye’s people … everything happening in the world today was already foretold in the Gospels…
Keep a close eye on the news…its all gonna get worse very quickly and im not referring to j swine flu virusust this… im referring to all things

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He is right. PROOF:

"Now a herd of many pigs..."(Matt 8:4) "...had..." (Matt 1:18) [a] "...disease." (Matt 4:23)
 
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This is a very very serious virus.

Swine flu unlike bird flu spreads from person to person and mutates rapidly. With todays rapid transportation systems such as trains and planes this has the potential to kill millions. It is similar to the spanish flu that killed half a million people.

There could be lots of people who are infected and don't even know it, This could turn out to be like something out of 12 monkeys.

Basically try and avoid overcrowded areas as much as you can.
 
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oh snap let's overhype this one too
 
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dp624 said:
oh snap let's overhype this one too
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It's not hype you fool. This flu is following exactly the same pattern as the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed more people than WW1 - about 50 million to be exact.

Add modern air travel to that and denser populations and game over.

For reference, a comparison of this flu and the Spanish flu compared to ordinary influenza. Note how these flus are special in that they target primarily young healthy people rather than children and elderly, by way of triggering a cytokine storm in strong immune systems:

File:W curve.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Normal yearly influenza kills about 5% of all hospitalised cases. This influenza is killing 5 to 10% of ALL cases, hospitalised or not. For every 1000 people infected, 100 die. If you extrapolate that to the entire world, that's almost a billion people dead.
 
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S.H.O.D.A.N. said:
It's not hype you fool. This flu is following exactly the same pattern as the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed more people than WW1 - about 50 million to be exact.

Add modern air travel to that and denser populations and game over.

For reference, a comparison of this flu and the Spanish flu compared to ordinary influenza. Note how these flus are special in that they target primarily young healthy people rather than children and elderly, by way of triggering a cytokine storm in strong immune systems:

File:W curve.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Normal yearly influenza kills about 5% of all hospitalised cases. This influenza is killing 5 to 10% of ALL cases, hospitalised or not. For every 1000 people infected, 100 die. If you extrapolate that to the entire world, that's almost a billion people dead.
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THE WORLD IS ENDING! CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY!!

Way overhyped man...
 
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Add modern medicine into the equation, and you get overhype.
 
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crud


and I had such grand schemes too
 
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This is why Jews don't eat pork, they knew it all along. They really are the chosen people :)
 
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