They told us today that the Swine flu isn't transmitted through consumption, so you gotta wonder what those farmers were doing..."
Lulz, I said that on the first page...
Actually I think its Influenza B not A
no it is most definitely A, I was talking to the head of the department of surgery in Barns jewish hospital (he is my mentor, and my letter of recommendation guy) and he said that Influenza A (not B) is what swine flu is, but since it isn't transmitted by pork ingestion they changed the name. We also happened to be making jokes like leno did.
What is Swine Influenza? Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter months similar to outbreaks in humans. The classical swine flu virus (an influenza type A H1N1 virus) was first isolated from a pig in 1930.
How does swine flu spread? Influenza viruses can be directly transmitted from pigs to people and from people to pigs. Human infection with flu viruses from pigs are most likely to occur when people are in close proximity to infected pigs, such as in pig barns and livestock exhibits housing pigs at fairs. Human-to-human transmission of swine flu can also occur. This is thought to occur in the same way as seasonal flu occurs in people, which is mainly person-to-person transmission through coughing or sneezing of people infected with the influenza virus. People may become infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose.
How can human infections with swine influenza be diagnosed? To diagnose swine influenza A infection, a respiratory specimen would generally need to be collected within the first 4 to 5 days of illness (when an infected person is most likely to be shedding virus). However, some persons, especially children, may shed virus for 10 days or longer. Identification as a swine flu influenza A virus requires sending the specimen to CDC for laboratory testing.
What medications are available to treat swine flu infections in humans? There are four different antiviral drugs that are licensed for use in the US for the treatment of influenza: amantadine, rimantadine, oseltamivir and zanamivir. While most swine influenza viruses have been susceptible to all four drugs, the most recent swine influenza viruses isolated from humans are resistant to amantadine and rimantadine. At this time, CDC recommends the use of oseltamivir or zanamivir for the treatment and/or prevention of infection with swine influenza viruses.
The number of victims in the world has hit 236. And there are more than 100 cases in the U.S. and one death in Texas.
My Advice Stay indoors if you are in an area where there has been a case of the flu. Do not go to any games or be in large crowds in areas of the flu. If you may have symptoms please stay indoors and away from crowds and see a doctor quick. Always wash your hands after interactions with or around people. Keep clean and take showers daily. You need to have a checkup with the doctor occasionally.
Meh a little while ago I saw some news about some retarded students bringing it to NYC after a trip to Cancun. Now instead of it being in the south, it's 90 freakin miles away from me.
Dumb***es. What part of "Stay out of Mexico unless absolutely necessary," Didn't they understand?
Here is why I don't believe there should be such a big thing about swine flu. Over 30000 Americans die from the flu each year, almost ten a day. Only 1 American has died from swine flu, and it was a baby. In what, 10 days, we have one death, from normal flu, we have almost 100 deaths, do the math, this isn't as serious as the press makes it up to be.
Dumb***es. What part of "Stay out of Mexico unless absolutely necessary," Didn't they understand?
It's because people don't understand that you can get sick, apparently. Contrary to people who think "oh it'll blow right over because I'm ages away from it", the severity of the pandemic depends wholly on how people manage it and how people move. For one you cannot trust 100% of the population to keep the virus in isolation and for another it only takes a small number of people to spread the virus a long long way. That's why saying "100 cases isn't much" is misleading.
At this point I'd also like to point out the actual definitions of the terms "andemic" and "epidemic" and "outbreak".
Outbreak- occurence of a disease higher than the expected norm for a given period of time.
Epidemic- an outbreak that occurs in a single region, locality.
Pandemic- an outbreak that occurs in multiple regions or an extensive epidemic.
In short, when people say "andemic" it doesn't necessarily mean "everybody's infected". It's closer to meaning "eople in lots of places are infected". That's because the latter is more significant for management than the former.
I don't know if this has been addressed because I haven't read the whole thread but, I am more concerned about the virus mutating. It apparently has an extremely strong propensity to do so being that it contains swine, human, and bird DNA. The flu that killed millions in 1918 swept through as something minor at first, but then it came back killing tons of people.
That tends to happen when you wipe a disease almost off the face of the planet and then let it come back. The strain that remains, by means of natural selection, is stronger and basically more capable of survivng against our methods of killing it.
