the number of worldwide confirmed cases went up by almost 100 today :\

No, 200!

Earlier today I found 240, but now 450.. :stunned::stunned::stunned:

^ :o stephan those must be possible cases.... :worried:

Is this some kind of competition now??:confused:

yes, the current number is 236, but the number of cases went up today by almost 100, since yesterday's count was 147.

 

if that's not rapid spreading, i don't know what is.

^ :o stephan those must be possible cases.... :worried:

No I got it from Wikipedia, but now it's changed, so probably is was a typing mistake, sorry! :)

yes, the current number is 236, but the number of cases went up today by almost 100, since yesterday's count was 147.

 

if that's not rapid spreading, i don't know what is.

Well, the confirmed deaths is'nt growing.. so is that stable now? Is the virus changed to a weaker version? Of is every time the virus takes another body, it's getting weaker? I don't know what, but I hear people here and there saying that the version of the virus outside Mexico is less heavy then it was.. hmm

Well, the confirmed deaths is'nt growing.. so is that stable now? Is the virus changed to a weaker version? Of is every time the virus takes another body, it's getting weaker? I don't know what, but I hear people here and there saying that the version of the virus outside Mexico is less heavy then it was.. hmm

 

The death rate is very low with this flu.

The death rate is very low with this flu.

Indeed, It still is 8 for a few days now.

And no deaths outside Mexico(well, one in USA but that was a Mexican searching elsewhere for hospital..)

Do you think about 200 people in so little time is very low? I know most of those cases aren't really confirmed but I believe is good that everyone's in alert. Nobody wants a pandemic flu like that one in 1918. It killed between 20 and 100 million people all over the world. Of couse nobody expected it in that time.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

Do you think about 200 people in so little time is very low? I know most of those cases aren't really confirmed but I believe is good that everyone's in alert. Nobody wants a pandemic flu like that one in 1918. It killed between 20 and 100 million people all over the world. Of couse nobody expected it in that time.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

 

Yes that is low. 1918 was almost a 100 years ago, our medicine is very advanced.

 

Most the people died from strep throat after the flu then by the actual flu and we have this great invention called antibiotics to cure that. More people are at risk of dying from many other diseases then this..I'm saying their are more dangerous deadlier things out there.

 

Like I've said, 250,000-500,000 die each year from the seasonal flu, is that major cause for concern?

 

Unless the death toll gets high, I'm not getting concerned. Last I read its around 2%....not cause for concern. SARS didn't kill me, Bird Flu didn't kill me, Osama Bin Laden didn't kill me, Y2K didn't kill me...

 

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/p/phantom_planet/do_the_panic.html

But the difference between 1918 and now.

Our technology is soooo much better now.

We've learned from those pandemic flu's so we know how to win this one.

We can so so much more now to stop it.

But don't be affraid, the change you'll die won't be that big if you can see.

8 deaths in Mexico ain't that much, there are alot of people living there, so if you go compare it to other places it's not that much..

 

I'll all going to be fine sooner or later! Just becareful when you think you have it, go to the doc. and you'll be fine soon!

While World War I did not cause the flu, the close troop quarters and massive troop movements hastened the pandemic, and increased transmission augmented mutation and may have increased the lethality of the virus. Some researchers speculate that the soldiers' immune systems were weakened by malnourishment, and the stresses of combat and chemical attacks, increasing their susceptibility to the disease.[24] Price-Smith has made the controversial argument that the virus helped tip the balance of power in the latter days of the war towards the Allied cause. Specifically, he provides data that the viral waves hit the Central Powers before they hit the Allied powers, and that both morbidity and mortality in Germany and Austria were considerably higher than in Britain and France.[25]

 

 

WW1 played a major role in the death toll of 1918....

Yes that is low. 1918 was almost a 100 years ago, our medicine is very advanced.

 

Most the people died from strep throat after the flu then by the actual flu and we have this great invention called antibiotics to cure that. More people are at risk of dying from many other diseases then this..I'm saying their are more dangerous deadlier things out there.

 

Like I've said, 250,000-500,000 die each year from the seasonal flu, is that major cause for concern?

 

Unless the death toll gets high, I'm not getting concerned. Last I read its around 2%....not cause for concern. SARS didn't kill me, Bird Flu didn't kill me, Osama Bin Laden didn't kill me, Y2K didn't kill me...

 

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/p/phantom_planet/do_the_panic.html

Damn I've to learn to type faster.. :laugh3::laugh3:

Didn't they rename the swine flu to N1H1?

Yes that is low. 1918 was almost a 100 years ago, our medicine is very advanced.

 

Virus evolve too

Virus evolve too

 

Indeed...and comets could destroy the earth, nukes could go off....war could wipe us all out...why worry about what you cannot control?

 

Now if this meets up with the Bird Flu which I read is possible it could become as deadly as the Bird Flu and become as contagious as the regular flu...if that were to happen I'd panic...but it probably won't. So tonight I wont' fear nuclear wars, or the possibilities of virus's mutating because thats a danger that has been around for a long time and always will.(this is coming to you from what my friends call the world's biggest "germaphobe")

well you can control virus

And what about the seasonal flu? What happens if that mutates and kills 50% of its victims?

that's why they fear

What about Ebola? So many viruses out there that could mutate besides the flu and kill so many...what new viruses will appear in the next 20 years? It makes little since to panic like we are especially when everything so far isn't severe.

it's not paranoia, just caution

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwm45MHV2jM]YouTube - FEEL the swine flu[/ame]

My fear of the swine flu is directly correlated to the faith I have in politicians to make my life better!

Didn't they rename the swine flu to N1H1?

yes and i don't really see why.. now here is called N1H1 and also flu A.

:thinking:

 

btw do anyone here remember how the bird flu was called? :uhoh:

so, this is scary.

 

i know someone who goes to university of deleware who has the swine flu.

 

thankfully i haven't seen her in years, so my doctor says i'm fine. :blank: