Influenza A (H1N1) near epidemic

Even in Japan H1N1 has almost passed our mind away...sadly.

A Person wrote: Unless it mutates I don't see it being worse than what happens every year, other than  the fact that a lot more people will get the flu, and like Ivan said, there may even be a vaccine by winter.

Every year seasonal flu can kill many infants and the elderly, in spite of vaccination.

JJLehto wrote: All I'm going to say is: This flu IS all over the globe now, and it is SUMMER. If this is still around when it starts to get colder....

I GOT IT !!!!

I have officially been diagnosed with Swine Flu.  ......But I am not in any danger. 

The symptoms was actually far less than common flu. I was quite pleased with it, actually. That was until I read the symptoms sheet and then contacted my local GP. She told me I had it. But I am living a pretty isolated life, writing on a novel and some reviews in PA. The seven days incubation has passed and I am not a risk to myself or anyone else (besides of being a morbid psychopath). So I was told to sit it out and do the normal flu treatment things. Hot drinks etc etc.

But as a sickness; it was not too bad.  

All I'm going to say is: This flu IS all over the globe now, and it is SUMMER. If this is still around when it starts to get colder....

OK this is priceless and just goes to show how this whole swine flu thing has gotten way out of hand. It's been very rainy the past few weeks, and one particular weekend we were having tornado sirens go off and all types of stuff like weather alerts and the like. The point being, here, one more siren or two shouldn't be out of place, right? And one could reasonably conclude that it was just the weather causing another accident or something. Anyways, so there's finally a lull in the rain and my roommate goes to take the trash out. Anyway, en route to the dumpster, another set of sirens( police, fire. and ambulance) goes off. At first my roommate thinks nothing of it, but then a neighbor comes running up to him all scared like and says "Oh no, it's the swine flu, it's finally got here! What should we do?!!" My roommate said that it was so much epic fail that his brain broke for a second, and it took him a while to regain the powers of speech to tell the guy he was being a moron and it was just the weather. But see, this is the kinda sh*t the pandemic labeling causes. It's causing people to run around like chickens with their heads cut off. Another example, two of the schools here closed for two weeks b/c of a suspected case of swine flu which actually turned out to just be a normal flu strain. Swine flu panic has become more of a pandemic than swine flu could ever hope to be.

Well, it has been announced....

I just saw on the news the WHO has declared it a level 6 pandemic, apparently the highest level there is.
They did explain this dosn't mean it is a some crazy virus that flies from town to town wiping everything out.
It is simply a very efficient virus that spreads quickly and is now all over the globe.
Never really thought about the PAN in pandemic.

Also, I found it interesting....the reason this virus affects people 10-50, (as opposed to most flus which do the opposite) is because it came from animals, it apparently is kinda of a mixture of pig,bird, and human virus. So, as Ivan said even though it dosn't seem like a really killer virus there's no telling what'll happen.



Edited by JJLehto - June 11 2009 at 11:44

The last ingformation I got from this friend of the center of epidemic diseases is that apparently mortality is not advancing as expected before, but not time to lower the hands yet, it could mutate and then could have serious problems

Well, that seems to have worked out OK. For now, at least.

At last this morning news showed us it was confirmed that the first three men be infected with H1N1 flu in Japan.
I'm afraid we might be seized by panic. I hope we should keep calm as in Mexico.

Anyway, it was reported that in addition to the common influenza signs of fever, cough, and sore throat, one fourth of H1N1 cases in US present with diarrhea and another one fourth present with vomiting.

Please take care all, and not get to be panicked.

Mexico health authorities actted in an excellent way, normal influenza kills a bigger percentage, and people responded in an excellent way to the orders.