New Flu Virus SPREADS!
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It has occurred to me. 
I haven't heard them mention the state of the economy at all today. The headlines were something like:
750,000 people in the UK will die from this virus (in a worst case scenario).
But just because there is an annual summer 'thing', that is no reason to dismiss it.
I haven't heard them mention the state of the economy at all today. The headlines were something like: 750,000 people in the UK will die from this virus (in a worst case scenario).
But just because there is an annual summer 'thing', that is no reason to dismiss it.
True, but my sense of care is spread quite thin at this point.
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I want to know, how did this virus end up with strings of dna from several different viruses, all sewn together? Do viruses interbreed somehow?
I always thought they just self-replicated with occasional mutations (utilizing the machinery within a hijacked cell), but that wouldn't explain how strings of dna from several distinct viruses could fuse together, which is what this new strain is.
I always thought they just self-replicated with occasional mutations (utilizing the machinery within a hijacked cell), but that wouldn't explain how strings of dna from several distinct viruses could fuse together, which is what this new strain is.
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The first reported case was in California 22nd march. This is odd.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/apr2209swine.html
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/apr2209swine.html
Well, there's no sweeps period in March or April, so what good would building a hysteria then do?
Good Question!I want to know, how did this virus end up with strings of dna from several different viruses, all sewn together? Do viruses interbreed somehow?
I always thought they just self-replicated with occasional mutations (utilizing the machinery within a hijacked cell), but that wouldn't explain how strings of dna from several distinct viruses could fuse together, which is what this new strain is.
I don't get why so many of you are writing this off because it's "just the flu." The flu can kill people, you know, and when antigenic shifts or reassortments occur it can kill LOTS of people. This is probably a reassortment (swine gets infected at the same time by both human and avian influenza strains; the genetic material gets mixed up and out comes a new virus) . This means epitopes that our immune systems have never seen before, which can be deadly.
Before y'all mock people for taking influenza epidemic's seriously, take a virology class or two.
Before y'all mock people for taking influenza epidemic's seriously, take a virology class or two.
Yeah, because the cure to the swine flu is panicking.
Like what? Seriously, what should we do? Wash our hands? Most of us already do that. Try not to get sneezed on? Most of us probably do that already, too.
Yes, reduce chance of exposure, take it seriously.
Not going around running around screaming "OMG PANDEMIC!!!!!"
Avoid crowds, especially in confined spaces. Be aware of illness symptoms and take sick leave liberally if suspected. Get checked out for something you'd normally just ride out. That sort of thing.
I'm sure people of certain ''religious beliefs'' would agree with you!
*UPDATE* 2000 people in Mexico hospitalized withe severe pneumonia!http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124081528924558633.html#mod=article-outset-box UN Chief comments on Flu http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8282347267271b64646e51f83dc4437f.791&show_article=1
Both of which only fight symptoms and not the virus itself. And since a fever is one of the ways your body fights off illness...
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