Anybody else worried?

[lv69cpl69]

Something else to worry about .....

I'm not really concerned about swine flu. Here's my concern.

• 3 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the cow . . .

Mad Cow disease.


• 2 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the bird . . .

Avian flu.


• This year, Chinese calendar year of the pig . . .

Swine flu.

comming soon the year of the cock - Anybody else worried? :eek: :bigrin:

[cal_yor]

It will be interesting to see what mad cock's disease looks like

COCK-A-DOODLE-SCREW

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

Hey! Sign me up for a years worth of cock! lol:bigrin::cool:
Bad Cat

[by~his~side]

Hmmm....what's the vaccine like?

[12voltman59]

Actually--the human race can be thankful that the authorities in places like China, Vietnam and elsewhere took some very aggressive steps to contain the "avian flu"

Those steps included some very stingent quaratine measures----steps we might find intrusve in a democratic society---and they ordered the destruction of millions of chickens, ducks and other sorts of related birds that were grown in close proximity to human beings---and also---that flu nerver did become a flu that mutated to the point that it allowed for human to human transfer---it retained its need to have the intermediary species of birds to make people sick.

We can also be thankfu that "avian flu" didn't make that genetic jump for human to human transmission--because it had a mortality rate well in excess of 50 percent of alll those who did get sick by it--the Spanish Flu of 1918 that killed something in the range of over 50,000,000 (some the total death toll came to close to 100,000,000) worldwide had a mortality rate of something in the range of the low twenty percent.

It was estimated that had the "avian flu" broken out into the general population--something like well over ONE BILLION people would have died from it.

This current "swine flu" currently has a mortality rate of around six percent--which is pretty much inline with normal "seasonal flu"--but that could change and it could become more lethal as this "pandemic" continues.

It is really more accurate now to call this flu by its offical name---H1N1--since it no longer needs "swine" animals to transfer this flu from person to person--it is very much a human flu now.

As to why they call flus "avian" "swine" or "canine"--it is from one of those animal groupings that the disease originates.

I am not a doctor or anything--but the reason I am farily well versed on this subject--in August I attended a seminar on the flu presented by the Ohio Department of Health in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I got to attend as a member of "the press."

This current flu is nothing--no pun intended-- to sneeze at---in my community in recent days--we have had some healthy adults in their 30s, 40s and 50s die, including a top captain of a local county Sheriff's Department.

Also--many young children and teens have also become extremely ill or have died as well thanks to this illness.


It is way too early to declare that the "swine flu is nothing!" The Spanish
Flu of 1918 started out pretty small and it went on to kill millions--at that time, it killed a farily sizeable precentage of the world's population.*

*I post this information with the proviso that I don't have crrently have access to the mounds of informational material I was provided at that seminar and was "winging it" without that material--so my numbers may not be exactly correct--but the primary information I present here is essentially correct as I can best recall it.*

[lv69cpl69]

WOW IT WAS JUST A JOKE:bigrin:

[12voltman59]

Actually--the human race can be thankful that the authorities in places like China, Vietnam and elsewhere took some very aggressive steps to contain the "avian flu"

Those steps included some very stingent quaratine measures----steps we might find intrusve in a democratic society---and they ordered the destruction of millions of chickens, ducks and other sorts of related birds that were grown in close proximity to human beings---and also---that flu nerver did become a flu that mutated to the point that it allowed for human to human transfer---it retained its need to have the intermediary species of birds to make people sick.

We can also be thankfu that "avian flu" didn't make that genetic jump for human to human transmission--because it had a mortality rate well in excess of 50 percent of alll those who did get sick by it--the Spanish Flu of 1918 that killed over 600,000 worldwide had a mortality rate of something in the range of the low twenty percent.

It was estimated that had the "avian flu" broken out into the general population--something like well over ONE BILLION people would have died from it.

This current "swine flu" currently has a mortality rate of around six percent--which is pretty much inline with normal "seasonal flu"--but that could change and it could become more lethal as this "pandemic" continues.

It is really more accurate now to call this flu by its offical name---H1N1--since it no longer needs "swine" animals to transfer this flu from person to person--it is very much a human flu now.

As to why they call flus "avian" "swine" or "canine"--it is from one of those animal groupings that the disease originates.

I am not a doctor or anything--but the reason I am farily well versed on this subject--in August I attended a seminar on the flu presented by the Ohio Department of Health in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I got to attend as a member of "the press."

This current flu is nothing--no pun intended-- to sneeze at---in my community in recent days--we have had some healthy adults in their 30s, 40s and 50s die, including a top captain of a local county Sheriff's Department.

Also--many young children and teens have also become extremely ill or have died as well thanks to this illness.


It is way too early to declare that the "swine flu is nothing!" The Spanish
Flu of 1918 started out pretty small and it went on to kill millions--at that time, it killed a farily sizeable precentage of the world's population.

To answer the question the OP asked: "Am I worried about "swine flu?" the answer is NO--but in the face of the information I do have--I am taking all reasonable precautions and do hope that if I get it--it doesn't "take me out"--also--it is not actually the "swine flu" itself that is doing the killing----it sets people up for a severe form of pnuemonia that overwhelms the victim and that is what kills them.

[littlerayofsunshine]

Well There are no cats or clams on the calender. So I feel pretty safe and see much satisfaction in my future. :cool:

[rissababynta]

LMFAO Oh Lord...my imagination is running wild...

[Doggie_Wood]

Thank goodness that Swimmy is just about over her bout with the H1N1 virus.:)

Doggie :doggie:

[lv69cpl69]

Hmmm....what's the vaccine like?

feline fluid?

[FalconAngel]

Something else to worry about .....


comming soon the year of the cock - Anybody else worried? :eek: :bigrin:


Not really worried. I've had the chicken pox already.

[roy m cox]

lol :bigrin:

[Hephaestion]

1) Of course it's a joke and a good one too

2) Most vaccines are delivered using a small prick

3) Imagine the thing limp, dripping with the occasional sneeze

Some die from drinking water and some from drinking beer
Some die of constipation and some of diarhoea
But of all diseases in the world
There's none that can compare
With the drip drip drip of the septic prick
of a British Grenadier

(can't name the tune it is sung to)

[someotherguy]

We're due for a smallcox epidemic, it would seem.

[izzfan]

Hey! Sign me up for a years worth of cock! lol:bigrin::cool:
Bad Cat

Me too :bigrin: LOL!