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Posted By y_soitenly 6 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsThe World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu by one level to phase 4, two steps short of declaring a full-blown pandemic.
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y_soitenly6 months, 2 weeks ago
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WHO says the phase 4 alert means sustained human-to-human transmission is causing outbreaks in at least one country. It signals a significant increase in the risk of a global epidemic, but doesn't mean a pandemic is inevitable. -
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y_soitenly6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Many experts think it may be impossible to contain a flu virus already spreading in several countries.
The WHO did not recommend closing borders or restricting travel because it would have little effect, if any, on stemming the spread of infection.
“At this time, closing of borders would not be effective at doing that,” Fukuda said.
Everyone is at risk for the swine flu.-
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nostalgia6 months, 2 weeks ago
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It was just announced on TV that a tourist from Mexico is now in a hospital in Florida and has been diagnosed with the swine flu
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The person visited Disney World
Isn't it time to stop all but absolutely necessary travel between Mexico and the US?
How many people did this one person infect - airplane, hotel, Disney etc etc
Economic concerns are trumping sound epidemic controls
Here is the report online:
http://www.wftv.com/news/19311020/detail.html#-
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nostalgia6 months, 2 weeks ago
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This is going to get worse before it gets better
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Mexico faces criticism over swine flu response
Two weeks after the first known swine flu death, Mexico still hasn't given medicine to the families of the dead. It hasn't determined where the outbreak began or how it spread. And while the government urges anyone who feels sick to go to hospitals, feverish people complain ambulance workers are scared to pick them up.
A portrait is emerging of a slow and confused response by Mexico to the gathering swine flu epidemic. And that could mean the world is flying blind into a global health storm.
Despite an annual budget of more than $5 billion, Mexico's health secretary said Monday that his agency hasn't had the resources to visit the families of the dead. That means doctors haven't begun treatment for the population most exposed to swine flu, and most apt to spread it.
It also means medical sleuths don't know how the victims were infected—key to understanding how the epidemic began and how it can be contained.
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4thchance6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Calling out....EARTH TO ALL YOU DRONES...this pandemic crap is all a big diversion to take our minds off of what Obama is doing to our country. Here ya go, I'll prove it.
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last winter, about 36,000 Americans died from the flu. In fact, 36,000 flu deaths in America is an average of how many Americans die every year from the flu.
My question is this. While the flu last year was spreading all over the place and hundreds of Americans were dying EVER DAY from it, where was the big PANDEMIC ALERT for that?
Now we have this so called swine flu pandemic, about 20 Americans have become ill from it, only one needed hospitalization because of it, but yet the MEDIA is going crazy with reporting on it, ALERT ALERT WARNING WARNING get prepared, we're all going to die....
What a freakin bunch of crap all this is.
In the mean time, Obama yesterday was out GOLFING!
You're all a bunch of FOOLISH SUCKERS.-
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CRYMTYPHON6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Wow!
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That was some proof!
And the FOOLISH SUCKERS made the argument complete!
Silly people will say that past flu viruses are in the flu vaccine library;
they don't represent an epidemic threat;
- whereas a new strain freshly mutated to humans
would represent an illness we are not prepared for,
- and so we prepare before people start dropping like 1918 .
But that is just crazy talk .
Seriously, the newspapers and the web and the radio pick up on what people
are afraid of, and feed it back; there was more coverage than there needed to be,
- but that does not mean it is not serious.
Only that the world is quiet of late.
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mesodude6 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Calling out....EARTH TO ALL YOU DRONES...this pandemic crap is all a big diversion to take our minds off of what Obama is doing to our country. Here ya go, I'll prove it."
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--Oil prices fell for a second straight day Tuesday on fears that the outbreak of swine flu would delay an economic recovery and further dampen energy demand.
Fears of pandemics have slowed the global economy in the past and officials with the World Health Organization, while raising alert levels Monday, warned against overreacting.
A global economic downturn has already led to a severe tumble in crude prices. A barrel of oil cost about $150 less than a year ago.
**Yeah, 4thChance. This "pandemic crap" would REEAAALLY benefit Obama. ROTFLMAO. Chickenhawk cons for 8 years and now chicken little cons. LMAO ;-p
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y_soitenly6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Don't thousands of people die from the regular flu? What's special this time around?
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Generally, people who die from influenza are older people or those who already have respiratory problems. They end up dying of pneumonia. But this time around, the people who died in Mexico are younger. They are apparently healthy people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. That's a big deal. When a virus seems to preferentially affect healthy people, it suggests its a new virus and is causing an overreaction of the immune response. That's what happened with bird flu as well.
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AndyJ2156 months, 2 weeks ago
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THE GOP IS ALSO the party that claims to have CHRISTIAN "FAMILY VALUES," but promoted the TORTURE OF PRISONERS, in violation of international law, according to THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS.
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There are many sources for that fact. Here’s one:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/16/terror/m...
And still, they try to deny that it happened or otherwise “cover” for it.
(The GOP is also the party of sex offenders Larry Craig and Mark Foley, graft expert Ted Stevens, convicted dirty trickster and burglar G. Gordon Liddy, lobbyist and GOP bribery expert Jack Abramoff, etc., etc.)
REPUBLICANS: THE PARTY OF FAMILY VALUES, BANKER BAILOUTS, CONVICTED FELONS, COVER-UPS AND TORTURE!
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CRYMTYPHON6 months, 2 weeks ago
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You are spamming the system with the same post.
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You might be a liberal;
or a con pretending to be an annoying liberal;
- or just someone who likes to copy and paste.
There are serious things to be said about the politics of torture;
- which means you are required to say them seriously .
Copying and pasting as spam is pathetic reduction of the subject into nonsense.
Go away.
And you really can leave out the last 2 lines.
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tadair9196 months, 2 weeks ago
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during the scary swine flu of '76, congress ordered mass vaccinations. there were only 2 in congress who voted against it (dr ron paul and another doctor). in the end, 1 person died on the flu and 25 died of the vaccines. they said it "fizzled out," but 3% of the people who took the vaccine died in the first 5 days after having taken it, and 10% of the people who took it suffered from permanent damage.
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i still remember saturday night live skits where everyone got the swine flu and started turning into pigs.-
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y_soitenly6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Don't thousands of people die from the regular flu? What's special this time around?
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Generally, people who die from influenza are older people or those who already have respiratory problems. They end up dying of pneumonia. But this time around, the people who died in Mexico are younger. They are apparently healthy people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. That's a big deal. When a virus seems to preferentially affect healthy people, it suggests its a new virus and is causing an overreaction of the immune response. That's what happened with bird flu as well.
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