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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 5:47 am
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was just watching teh news while I was having my lunch today. apparently in britain we've had 8 cases, and the news are currently badgering a guy who's got symptoms which might be the first human-to-human transmission of the disease.
It amused me though, since every single expert was like "It IS just normal influenza. we only CALL it swine flu. There is NOTHING different about it."
People who have it freak out that they might die, even if they probably won't. tey also forget that influenza - as in proper influenza and not what is popularily termed the "'flu" but is acually just a bad cold - kills hundreds of people a year, or evern a month. Influenza knocks of load of old and young people, and used to be a serious pandemic that actually did kill people in high numbers. It's always around. That's why they're always trying to give influenza vaccinations to old people around winter.
People are just freaking out because, as ever, whenever they attach a fairly normal illness to animals people for some reason think it's a million times worse.
Only when the virus mutates is it truly dangerous, and mutation could happen to ANY virus - whether we already have it or not.
So yep. People should stop flipping out. They're blowing everything way out of proportion. Be careful, sure, but chill out. Now they've even put on loads more call centre staff in the NHS Direct for all the dumbasses who get the sniffles and instantly think they have swine flu.
urgh.
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:35 am
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:56 am
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 1:56 pm
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Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 5:52 am
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Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:33 am
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 6:28 am
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Zizzykitty Moonlight_HuangHou Zizzykitty The most lethal strain of Ebola doesn't even kill you in 70 hours from catching it. You die a horrible death of having your organs turned to mush then bleeding out from every orifice of your body but it just doesn't work that quickly. That sounds very painful. o_oActually, it fries all your internal organs. That includes your brain. So by the time you bleed out you're pretty much in a zombie-like state. You wouldn't really feel it, or if you did you wouldn't be yourself anyway so it's not like you'd really know what was happening. *speechless* Oh wow....I guess that's something to glad for (that it doesn't hurt). Sad for your family members to see you like that though. Now that I think of it I think there was a movie I saw at school about it in science class. (real movie not the bad-made school types lol). Wasn't it passed through an animal or something?
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 6:33 am
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Moonlight_HuangHou Zizzykitty Moonlight_HuangHou Zizzykitty The most lethal strain of Ebola doesn't even kill you in 70 hours from catching it. You die a horrible death of having your organs turned to mush then bleeding out from every orifice of your body but it just doesn't work that quickly. That sounds very painful. o_oActually, it fries all your internal organs. That includes your brain. So by the time you bleed out you're pretty much in a zombie-like state. You wouldn't really feel it, or if you did you wouldn't be yourself anyway so it's not like you'd really know what was happening. *speechless* Oh wow....I guess that's something to glad for (that it doesn't hurt). Sad for your family members to see you like that though. Now that I think of it I think there was a movie I saw at school about it in science class. (real movie not the bad-made school types lol). Wasn't it passed through an animal or something?
Yeah, they aren't exactly sure what animal though. They're still trying to figure out where ebola comes from.
Bad made school type movies are hilarious. xd I happen to know Ebola since I read The Hot Zone a while ago which is a nonfiction book about a concentration Ebola outbreak in monkeys in the US and Ebola in general.
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:13 am
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:56 pm
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:28 am
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