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.
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 ........
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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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