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Aparently the nasal version is a live virus. Dont quote me, just going on memory here.

They are only giving the nasal version to low risk persons. Side effects include raising the dead, and zombies ;)

The video was the normal seasonal flu, scary stuff. Personally I havent had the flu, nor a shot in 23 years.
 





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I just did a big research paper on the evolution of swine flu for Uni, interesting stuff. I studied the sequence data of the virus and looked at the possible animal origins and evolutionary tree of the virus.

The current swine flu is nothing to be worried about, the scary part is if a virus like H5N1 (bird flu) which is extremely pathogenic decides to mix with swine flu, which transmits really easily. So then you get a really deadly, fast transmitting virus, and you get a massive pandemic like back in 1918 :)
 
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Murudai said:
I just did a big research paper on the evolution of swine flu for Uni, interesting stuff. I studied the sequence data of the virus and looked at the possible animal origins and evolutionary tree of the virus.

The current swine flu is nothing to be worried about, the scary part is if a virus like H5N1 (bird flu) which is extremely pathogenic decides to mix with swine flu, which transmits really easily. So then you get a really deadly, fast transmitting virus, and you get a massive pandemic like back in 1918 :)
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Thats another freaky one.. In the province of Ontario Canada, there was also a case where the h1n1 was transmitted from human to turkeys... The birds had not entered the market yet, but did get sick from humans? It all seems to be getting stranger by the day...

simple solution, stay home.
 
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Lucky all my friends are not turkeys....:crackup::crackup:

I'm just going to lock the doors and stay home like a hermit
until Spring... and all the Viruses can have each other... :undecided:

Jerry
 
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lasersbee said:
Lucky all my friends are not turkeys....:crackup::crackup:

I'm just going to lock the doors and stay home like a hermit
until Spring... and all the Viruses can have each other...

Jerry
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Where it gets crazy is, this flu is living during the warm months. I mean someone correct me if im wrong here, but doesnt that double the chances of its progress and damage?

Hiding till spring may just not be long enough. So ive decided to make a lifetime commitment and throw away the key. :undecided:
 
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wannaburn said:
The video was the normal seasonal flu, scary stuff. Personally I havent had the flu, nor a shot in 23 years.
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Me either, sir. Except the 23 years part, as I have 5 years to go :p

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So, was that from the normal flu shot, or the H1N1 flu shot?
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It was a standard flu shot. The girl in the video carried a RARE neurological disease that was triggered by something in the flu shot. So basically if she had never got it, she would have been fine and wouldn't have had her dreams/life destroyed :undecided:
 
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Swine Flu is overrated. Everyone was thinking "Oh no, we're all gonna die." Yet it still hasn't happened lol. And the deaths caused by swine flu are insignificant compared to the world population.
 
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How about we put this in perspective. Shall we? you are

TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO TIMES more likely to die from diarrhoea

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I had swine flu not too long ago, it was annoying but not a lot more than that. The only real danger is what Murudai described.

Seb
 
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They placed some kind of box in each of our classes in my school so that, when the lesson ends, we can put some of that blue thingy( i dont know the word ) on our hands and the microbes get vaporized!
 
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In our school, swine flu is a huge joke and isn't taken seriously, and I know a few people who have had it, and none of them are dead so far :)

@Silvershot, it could be soap, hand gel or disinfectant you're referring to?
 
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charliebruce said:
In our school, swine flu is a huge joke and isn't taken seriously, and I know a few people who have had it, and none of them are dead so far :)

@Silvershot, it could be soap, hand gel or disinfectant you're referring to?
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disinfectant, that's it! thanks
 
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Cyparagon said:
How about we put this in perspective. Shall we? you are

TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO TIMES more likely to die from diarrhoea
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Heh, that's not actually true in our case. In developed countries few, if any people would die directly from diarrhea (it might be the symptoms of a much more serious disease though). Diarrhea kills people in developing nations because they can't replenish the nutrients and fluids they lose, where as in developed countries it is quite simple to do that.


And yeah, like I posted before, the current version of swine flu poses no serious threat. The media are stupid, if scientists say something about a potential threat then the media overhype it like crazy. In reality the threat the scientists are worried about isn't the current strain, the threat is that now we know pig to human flu strains are possible, there is the chance that a deadly strain will arise, like has happened many times before through birds and other animals.
 
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The title of this thread takes me back!

Couldn't resist the urge to post this memorabilia:

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Hytone comic February 1971 (back cover) :crackup:

Regards!
 
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