Swine Flu - do YOU know the symptoms?

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I'm going to put across a very serious point about swine flu here. I know a thread has already been made in the events forum but that dosn't cover the full details of the problem. Many people do not know about the symptoms of the disease. Below is a list I have made up of known symptoms:

The Symptoms

Symptoms are extremely similar to a normal case of the flu only more agressive and over a longer period of time. Others include Vomiting, Lack of Appetite, Diorreah, Nausea, Sore throats and Halitosis.

Pork, Bacon etc.
If properly cooked, Eating meats produced from pigs is perfectly safe. Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 160'F kills the virus instantly as it does with anything else.

How Does it Spread?
Swine Flu can spread from pig-pig, pig-human, and ultimately, human-human. Being around infected pigs can lead to infection and being around others after that can infect them. Stay away from Pig shows, fairs, exhibitions etc. and DON'T touch your mouth or nose after handling a pig or anyone with the disease.

Who is most at risk?
Currently, The whole world is at risk and the disease is one step away from a pandemic. People who are most at risk are people in or around Mexico (Calif., Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Guatemala, Belize), Europe (Which is becoming increasingly bad with more and more cases reported.) and several places in Asia.) People who are at most risk of Death whilst infected are young children, the elderly, and people with weaker immune systems who live in the highlighted areas.

More info about the disease can be found at the following wiki page.
[WIKIPEDIA]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_influenza[/WIKIPEDIA]

Thanks for reading and I hope you all stay safe.
Dan (Pendolino).
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Pendolino
I'm going to put across a very serious point about swine flu here. I know a thread has already been made in the events forum but that dosn't cover the full details of the problem. Many people do not know about the symptoms of the disease. Below is a list I have made up of known symptoms:

The Symptoms

Symptoms are extremely similar to a normal case of the flu only more agressive and over a longer period of time. Others include Vomiting, Lack of Appetite, Diorreah, Nausea, Sore throats a
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nd sudden, momentary lapses of concentration?


In all seriousness though, why is it important to recognise Swine (or "Novel" as the EU now call it) Flu symptoms instead of regular Flu? I mean, since there have been people infected with Swine Flu in the UK, no-one has died from it - while 75 people have died from common influenza strains...
 
THere was more depth in your other thread.

Novel flu? Better than Nouvelle flu I suppose.
 
Pendolino
Is it just me Famine, Or have you deleted half of my post? so that it now dosen't make any sense?
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Yes. I've deleted half your post. That's exactly what I've done. Because I have nothing better to do than edit people's posts to make them look like gibbering lunatics.


Alternatively, you pressed "submit" instead of "preview", created this thread without knowing, then made this duplicate thread 14 minutes later.


And still I don't know why it is I should be concerned about this virus, considering it has a lower mortality rate than common influenza. Or why 19 confirmed cases in Europe in 10 days makes it a "pandemic".
 
Famine
Yes. I've deleted half your post. That's exactly what I've done. Because I have nothing better to do than edit people's posts to make them look like gibbering lunatics.
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:lol:


And still I don't know why it is I should be concerned about this virus, considering it has a lower mortality rate than common influenza. Or why 19 confirmed cases in Europe in 10 days makes it a "pandemic".
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I know, it's ridiculous. I was listening to the radio briefly last night and the announcer was mentioning something along the lines of "the spread is uncontrollable now" and that 4 in 10 people are expected to contract it, or something. Just like bird flu. Oh, wait...
 
I shall, once again, leave it to the Daily Mash to sum up my feelings:

THE World Health Organisation last night confirmed a pork flu pandemic was now imminent, raising fears that millions of people obviously have no idea what a pandemic is.

As confirmed cases in Europe leapt from probably 14 to possibly 19, officials said the very small number of people infected meant it was vital governments across the world were prepared to use the word 'pandemic' as often as possible.

Martin Bishop, from Doncaster, said: "I thought it was when millions of people were infected, bodies were piled outside cemeteries and doors were daubed with a big, red 'X' to indicate a 'house of the unclean'.

"But then I looked it up and sure enough it said 'Pandemic, noun - 19 people in four different countries, each with a slight temperature and a bottle of Lucozade'. So there you go."


A WHO spokesman said: "Just so we're all on the same page, a pandemic actually means that about 100 people in at least three different counties are all suffering from the same condition.

"We use the word pandemic because it's a combination of the ancient Greek words 'pan' meaning 'everyone' and 'demic' meaning 'frighten the absolute living 🤬 out of'."

Julian Cook, from Stevenage, added: "Right. A hundred people. Three countries. Same condition. So that does that mean there's a pandemic of having a small bust of Queen Victoria stuck up your bumhole?"
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I'm just confused about what authority Roger Daltrey has in this situation? "The WHO has increased threat levels." Is he even qualified as a doctor?
 
Well I tell you something Famine there certainly is a pandemic. But not of swine flu or whatever they want to call it, I don't really care. There is a pandemic of a unknown bug that seems to make all journalists and "officials" act like complete 🤬 and get terrified of everything. Stop dramatizing every news story you idiots, it's almost as if they enjoy cases like this. They need to realize their job is to report facts, not what might happen and to reassure people, not frighten everybody.
 
Am I right in thinking that about 4 people die every day in the UK due to normal influenza?
 
Normal flu, or influenza, tends to effect the old and the weak more than does the healthy. The trouble with Bacon Flu is that, like the strain that killed more than 20 million in 1918, it's the healthy members of the population that are more likely to be infected by it.
 
Famine
I shall, once again, leave it to the Daily Mash to sum up my feelings:
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That site is now bookmarked, just spent an hour trawling through the old news stories.
 
Daily Mash is very funny. Always like the Bra Research story. Also have some hilarious videos on there.
 
Sureboss
Am I right in thinking that about 4 people die every day in the UK due to normal influenza?
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Nearer 8. It's about 3,000 per year - or, for my own amusement, as many as die in the UK from all road-traffic incidents.

Or, to put it another way, more people will die in the UK today from common 'flu than all the confirmed cases of Crackling Cough in the UK put together in the last 10 days. And more people will die in the UK today from common 'flu than all of the confirmed deaths worldwide from Scratching Sneezes since the story broke 10 days ago.

TheCracker
Normal flu, or influenza, tends to effect the old and the weak more than does the healthy. The trouble with Bacon Flu is that, like the strain that killed more than 20 million in 1918, it's the healthy members of the population that are more likely to be infected by it.
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Everyone and anyone can be infected by normal 'flu - it's generally the very old, very young and the immunocompromised who drop dead from it. Pork Fever has the same MO and, from what I can tell, about the same mortality rate.

I couldn't be less concerned if I tried.
 
The only truly scary thing about this is that the satire of the Daily Mash is a more accurate and reliable source of news than any of the main stream media.

The media have labelled it "swine" flu even though there isn't a single reported instance of a contaminated pig. Experts have suggested that it “might have been” incubated in pigs as they are known as mixing vehicles for various forms of flu and this one has elements of human, pig and bird flu. This seems to me to be very unfair to pork producers and related businesses.

When governments use the media in this way to create panic over relatively insignificant issues it's usually to divert attention from other real issues that they don't want people to be thinking about. For example SARS was happening around the time of the invasion of Iraq. This time I imagine they want to divert attention away from the vast amounts of future generations wealth vanishing in an economic black hole of their own making.

It's the same old government formula - problem, reaction, solution.
 
^^ I agree with every single word of that post. My thoughts exactly.
 
Awesome. The one "case" reported here in PT:

Porto, Portugal
Last Updated by L 11 hours ago

1 suspected case.

3 year old boy hospitalized with flu-like symptoms
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flu-like symptoms...

Hey, what else can it be but the pig-flu pandemic that's been killing everyone?
 
That map is a bit of a larf. Am I the only one thinking that each and every person now with normal influenza is going to their doctors and the papers are saying it "might be" swine flu?

"Oh my god, I've got a bit of a cough and feeling drowsy"
"Holy crap, you haven't kissed any pigs lately have you?"
"Just your sister. BURN!"

etc.
 
They call it Mexican Flu in attempt to appear sensitive to Jewish and Muslim nations.

Here, in the USA, it's called, TK421, or R2D2-something-something.


90210?
 
Never mind. I heard they have a cure. It's some kind of oinkment.
 
A cure has got snowt to do with it at this stage. It's all about prevention.

@ Touring Mars - 👍
 
I phoned up NHS 24 to ask about symptoms, but all I got was crackling.
 

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