Author Topic: pig...errr. swine.. um... apocaly... uh...pandemic? (Read 990 times)

H-kon · « **on:** April 27, 2009, 12:55:00 PM »

Anyone following this lately?

I wonder whats next. We had avian flu, now pig-flu so i guess the next thing is that flying pigs flu

No outbreak here so far, and the gov here has 1,4 million doses of treatment ready so i guess we're pretty safe still.

I heard there was a possible outbreak in Australia and Canada?

H-kon · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2009, 03:05:59 PM »

I was a bit quick. Since my last post, there has been an outbreak in Denmark and now possibly on the west coast of Norway.

this virus seems to travel faster than air.

clifton · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2009, 04:54:38 PM »

Woah! scary stuff

I have not heard the news all weekend but will for sure watch the supperhour news tonight.

H-kon · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2009, 05:08:38 PM »

Scary stuff. Correction about the Norwegian incident. Doesn't seem the person had it. The denmark case is still pending.

clifton · « **Reply #4 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:12:05 AM »

Apparently there are three "known cases" in Canada and a few people
with flu like symptoms are being monitored. All these people have
recently been to mexico. None of these people are in grave danger at present.

Elf · « **Reply #5 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:32:44 PM »

Soon after reading there was a swine flu case in New Zealand, three people have flu like symptoms in my state!

A doctor said on the news "At the moment these three people are not particularly sick and I think the likelihood of them having swine flu is very low." The results of the three suspected cases will be known tomorrow.

H-kon · « **Reply #6 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:23:11 AM »

The World Health Organization has raised the pandemic level to 5. Level 6 is where black helicopters starts shooting at everything that moves.

Do they know something that we don't? It doesn't seem like many are affected, and i am not sure about the mortality rate either.

No cases confirmed up here yet. Denmark might have one case. Germany has one confirmed case. Hmm. Is this a non-event?

clifton · « **Reply #7 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:26:25 PM »

There are 13 Countries reporting cases.. 19 cases in Canada, none serious here so far.

There is one reported death, that of an infant in Texas.

Elf · « **Reply #8 on:** April 30, 2009, 05:46:52 PM »

Not cases confirmed in Australia. There are plenty of people getting tested but no cases yet.

clifton · « **Reply #9 on:** May 02, 2009, 04:32:35 PM »

There were 51 cases reported in Canada this a.m. Still none serious and all are improving nicely.

Elf · « **Reply #10 on:** May 03, 2009, 03:54:49 AM »

There are 80 people awaiting test results for swine flu in Australia, with no confirmed cases.

Elf · « **Reply #11 on:** May 09, 2009, 12:43:46 PM »

We have had our first case in Australia.

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A woman had contracted the disease in late April while overseas and had recovered before returning to Australia. The strain of the flu has been identified in the sample but at a very low count

H-kon · « **Reply #12 on:** May 09, 2009, 12:47:04 PM »

No cases here still, but they're anticipating one any moment now. We've got 1,4 mill doses of tamiflu and more on order so they say that we're well prepared.

The amount of infected keeps rising. Seems like a repeat of the 1918 pandemic where it showed up mild to begin with in 1917 before going aggressive the next year.

clifton · « **Reply #13 on:** May 09, 2009, 12:51:56 PM »

The news last night said there are 233 cases in Canada and one related death.
The person that died had other health issues as well.

H-kon · « **Reply #14 on:** May 22, 2009, 03:32:47 PM »

Not much in the news about this, but i heard about the new treatment for swine flu. It's an oinkment.

clifton · « **Reply #15 on:** May 22, 2009, 03:41:26 PM »

Elf · « **Reply #16 on:** May 22, 2009, 03:42:42 PM »

Elf · « **Reply #17 on:** May 22, 2009, 04:13:26 PM »

Australia now has 13 cases.

Edit: Clifton, I see you just changed your avatar.

clifton · « **Reply #18 on:** May 22, 2009, 04:50:16 PM »

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Been going to do this for awhile now, I deal with so many tomatoes in the greenhouses, some days I feel like a "tomato head"

Elf · « **Reply #19 on:** June 06, 2009, 04:00:56 PM »

It's still in the news here and we have over one thousand cases.

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Author Topic: pig...errr. swine.. um... apocaly... uh...pandemic? (Read 990 times)