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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:49 pm
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:50 pm
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:55 pm
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:39 pm
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:59 pm
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 3:13 pm
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 3:46 pm
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 12:50 am
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 6:51 am
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Kaz-Balan The worst thing is that when a real biohazard shall happen, such management of the crisis by the medias may provoke a complete catastrophe, some day, especially with health structures degrading at the rhtythm we witness in most countries ( including rich ones ). Do not be fooled : the risk is very real. But people should just have a look at the pandemics in Africa, in India, how many casualties diseases have caused all along decades there, and they should compare with what we have now. They should also compare the technical and financial means, and realize the rich countries are, comparatively, extremely well protected... thanks to some amount of taxes going to public health surveys and structures. Know also some historic diseases were never found treatments ( Black Plague ), or might happen again ( Spanish flu or that deadly a variation of flu ), and over-using antibiotics has very problematic consequences, with more and more classic streptococci varieties getting more and more resistant...
maybe you are right, but the bottom line is, if you live in a developed western country you may get the flu but it is unlikely to kill you.
this swine flu is actually a variant of the "spanish flu" which killed more people than the first world war...but that's because it happened straight afterwards and there was no health infratructure to cope.
it's possible this pandemic (if the who actually declare it is one) will knock out huge swathes of populations in Africa and India and other 3rd world economies, partly because those countries have no stocks of drugs to deal with a large outbreak. i read somewere online that India has enough anti viral whatever it is to treat only 0.0025% of its population. the other reason it will have a huge effect in, for example, Africa is because there is already an AIDS pandemic and a TB pandemic happening...30% of South Africans have HIV...
after the bird flu scare most European countries have a very large stock of anti viral drugs available..and i'm sure North America must be well prepared too after the Sars crisis?
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black_wing_angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 7:02 am
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village midget Kaz-Balan The worst thing is that when a real biohazard shall happen, such management of the crisis by the medias may provoke a complete catastrophe, some day, especially with health structures degrading at the rhtythm we witness in most countries ( including rich ones ). Do not be fooled : the risk is very real. But people should just have a look at the pandemics in Africa, in India, how many casualties diseases have caused all along decades there, and they should compare with what we have now. They should also compare the technical and financial means, and realize the rich countries are, comparatively, extremely well protected... thanks to some amount of taxes going to public health surveys and structures. Know also some historic diseases were never found treatments ( Black Plague ), or might happen again ( Spanish flu or that deadly a variation of flu ), and over-using antibiotics has very problematic consequences, with more and more classic streptococci varieties getting more and more resistant... maybe you are right, but the bottom line is, if you live in a developed western country you may get the flu but it is unlikely to kill you. this swine flu is actually a variant of the "spanish flu" which killed more people than the first world war...but that's because it happened straight afterwards and there was no health infratructure to cope. it's possible this pandemic (if the who actually declare it is one) will knock out huge swathes of populations in Africa and India and other 3rd world economies, partly because those countries have no stocks of drugs to deal with a large outbreak. i read somewere online that India has enough anti viral whatever it is to treat only 0.0025% of its population. the other reason it will have a huge effect in, for example, Africa is because there is already an AIDS pandemic and a TB pandemic happening...30% of South Africans have HIV... after the bird flu scare most European countries have a very large stock of anti viral drugs available..and i'm sure North America must be well prepared too after the Sars crisis?
Yeah, I agree with you. "Americans" and other "rich" countries, have very little to actually fear. We will have casualties, I'm sure, but NOTHING compared to poor countries.
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 4:25 pm
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