woo hoo swine flu

[kehaar]

that's H1N1 to you, and I got it.

The Suckness quotient is pretty much through the roof: fever, aches, nose drip, lung congestion, diarrhea, sore throat.

it's great to be a part of early 21st century history.

[nutcracker]

Your not gonna die.

[kehaar]

not from this, at least

still sux.

[Glabbit]

Get well sooner than that guy over there did! *points at corpse*

[Renegade_Turner]

OH NO, QUICK, GET HIM OFF THE FORUM, WE ARE AAAAAAALL GONNA DIIIIIIIIE! *Runs away crying*

[Count Roland]

*takes a chemical bath in case the H1N1 has mutated and can now transmit across the tubes that make up the internet*

[Sandurz]

Don't let your computer get infected!

[blood-shard]

wth my pc just took a nasty dump and had a melt down . Dont worry LG laptop ill take care of you

[kehaar]

BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HAH!!!

I keess all yours computors wiz a beeg, sloppy keess! *SCHMEEEE-EEE-ERRP!*

(*cough*) (*wheeze*)








...ew, my keyboard feels dirty.

[Spartan X]

With this H1N1 strain, a LOT could happen. It could mutate to harmlessness, or it could turn disasterous. This is for many reasons;

1. It is dangerous to YOUNG children (toddlers downwards), the elderly, the pregnant, and the already ill. This is because their immune systems aren't as strong as normal. And i think you guys would agree that it is a sizeable proportion of the current population. This is why the WHO (world health organisation) are so concerned, and that we are currently at level 6.

2. If this mixes with normal flu, we could decrease in immunity, with drastic effects. Lots more will die. This is another reason why the WHO are concerned. This has happened in Austrailia since they hit flu season (winter, or there abouts), and this is why lots more are dying than the rest of the world.

3. It doesn't seem to be too dangerous at the moment, but the infection and death count are rising. This is why lots more things are being implimented.

[Zhukov]

2. If this mixes with normal flu, we could decrease in immunity, with drastic effects. Lots more will die. This is another reason why the WHO are concerned. This has happened in Austrailia since they hit flu season (winter, or there abouts), and this is why lots more are dying than the rest of the world.

What exactly do you mean by "mix"?

Because I am rapidly starting to suspect that you know very little about viruses.

[Untadaike]

Monday, June 29th 2009, 1:48 PM
Tumbelaka/Getty

A hospital staff locks the gate at Sanglah hospital in Denpasar, Bali. Recent cases of H1N1 flu have raised concerns in Asian countries where H5N1 flu, or avian flu, is already entrenched.

What happens when flus collide?

Indonesia’s first cases of the new H1N1 flu, known as swine flu, have raised concerns that if the virus spreads it could combine with the entrenched and deadly H5N1 avian influenza to create a more lethal strain of flu.

Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari, who confirmed six new H1N1 cases on Sunday, said she was concerned about H1N1, widely known as swine flu, "marrying" with H5N1 avian flu.

Influenza viruses not only mutate quickly and unpredictably, but they can swap genes,especially if a person or animal becomes infected with two strains at once. The new H1N1 strain is itself a mixture of various strains, genetic tests show.

Even if this worst-case scenario did not occur, experts say populous, developing countries such as Indonesia, India or Egypt, where healthcare systems can be rudimentary, will suffer more deaths from the new virus.

H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in Asia for years and has hit Indonesia harder than any other country.

Although it only rarely infects people, it has killed 262 out of 433 infected globally since 2003, with 141 of those cases in Indonesia.

"We are scared because we are the warehouse of the world’s most virulent H5N1," Supari said.

"I am worried if the viruses encounter each other in the field," C.A. Nidom, the head of the Avian Influenza lab at Airlangga University in Surabaya, said.

The World Health Organisation declared a pandemic of H1N1 swine flu earlier this month and said the virus causes a moderately severe flu, spreading very easily from person to person.

H5N1 spreads mostly from a bird to a person and stops there, but is far deadlier.

The mortality rate for H1N1 is 0.2 percent, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, while for H5N1 it is just over 60 percent.

"Get well soon, kehaar! "

[cachiporrin]

oh dude, I´m really sorry but that was so funny, as soon as my brother read the topic name he suddenly started laughing like a mkaniac.

[kehaar]

thanks, everyone, I'm feeling much better.

sucker burns through you like a fire, no shit. I went from feeling mildly crummy saturday morning to 4 pm thinking, "maybe I won't go build wheels at the shop", to a fever of 101.6F by 6 pm.

called the doctor monday, they told me to wear a mask to come into the hospital. We don't have any little paper type masks around the house, so I said I could use our canister breather mask we bought for sanding floors. The nurse laughed and said just tie a handkerchief on.

It would have been so badass to wear the canister mask into the hospital like I was coming from Halflife, but I guess people are already kinda freaked out in hospitals. Lotta people looked at me like they were glad I was on the other side of the room.

The fever was pretty much gone by tuesday, but I can see if you had a weak immune system or lung problems it could be dangerous. I still have some fluid in my lungs, but boredom is driving me out for a bike ride. A slow, short one, anyway.

[Renegade_Turner]

2. If this mixes with normal flu, we could decrease in immunity, with drastic effects. Lots more will die. This is another reason why the WHO are concerned. This has happened in Austrailia since they hit flu season (winter, or there abouts), and this is why lots more are dying than the rest of the world.

What exactly do you mean by "mix"?

Because I am rapidly starting to suspect that you know very little about viruses.

That's funny, I got the same impression. People who know the least about something are sometimes the ones with the strongest opinions, because they start making their own shit up and then adamantly believe it's true.