Swine flu

.. or this year's
aids
sars
bird flu
pandemic

we're doomed Captain Mainwaring!

Just concentrate on watching out for that bus coming from your right hand side....far more relevant !

It's OK because it's probably part of god's big plan...

He's got a plan....? Crap, I thought we were winging it all this time...!

2012 will be the year of the bear flu.

Amazing, that you take this so easy.

The result of the 1918/19 flu: about 20 million victims.

It must be British humour .

It's all ah, ah, ah, atchoo, oink, a load of rubbish! There's ah, ah, atchoo, oink, no chance it will make it over here.

What's 20 million out of 6 Billion?

That flu is a swine!!

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
It's all ah, ah, ah, atchoo, oink, a load of rubbish! There's ah, ah, atchoo, oink, no chance it will make it over here.

Just got back from your holidays in Mexico Mark?

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Originally posted by Stephen B:
What's 20 million out of 6 Billion?

natural selection!

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
It's all ah, ah, ah, atchoo, oink, a load of rubbish! There's ah, ah, atchoo, oink, no chance it will make it over here.

It made it. Click.

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Originally posted by Stephen B:
What's 20 million out of 6 Billion?

Not enough?

Willy.

The Daily Telegraph reports it as potentially 2 per cent fatal and the paper calculates that this puts the total potentially at risk of death at 120 million [out of six billion] - so it is not going to put the over-population crisis right is it.

Some will maintain that there is no human over-population crisis, and so there is nothing to worry about ...

ATB from George

I poo-pooed it and look what happened to me...



No kidding, the guy on BBC news was advising us how to take basic precautions to avoid the disease here in the U.K. and just said "...you should sneeze into the crook of your elbow to avoid spreading the disease". Well that's that sorted then.

Actually, it's all the fault of those darned Communists Reds in yer Beds

And whatever happened to SARS anyway? Did the Chinese manage to put it back in the box?

I'm OK, I've stocked up on LemSip Max Strength!

Reminds me of the fantastic Terry Nation 'Survivors' series I watched recently - if any of you haven't seen it you really should.

I have to say I'm more than a little surprised that they haven't suspended flights to Mexico yet.

Jonathan

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Originally posted by Jonathan Gorse:
I have to say I'm more than a little surprised that they haven't suspended flights to Mexico yet.

Too much money to be lost...

See how the stock markets reacted ? British Airways stock went down 8%...But surprise surprise, GlaxoSmithKline and other pharmaceutical companies went up 3%.....

If it wasn't already too late I'd have thought it would be flights from Mexico that should be suspended, not to.

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Originally posted by Stephen B:
What's 20 million out of 6 Billion?

The global population in 1918 was only 1.5 billion, so 20 million victims are not few. According to the "Bulletin of the History of Medicine" there were even 50 million vicitims, about three percent of the world`s population.

If the same would happen now, we have to expect 200 million dead. And even this can be optimistic, nowadays the international air traffic helps flu to spread much faster than in 1918.

We need to be lucky.

I ran the marathon on Sunday, and passed someone running in a Mexican outfit - sombrero'n'all.

People were giving him a wide berth. Seriously.
I'm not the world's fittest person by any stretch but I can assure you that you couldn't run a marathon with so much as a heavy cold, let alone flu - swine or otherwise.

I bet he was sick of the comments by the end...

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Originally posted by rodwsmith:
I ran the marathon on Sunday, and passed someone running in a Mexican outfit - sombrero'n'all.

People were giving him a wide berth. Seriously.

This made me laugh out loud.

But you should know, seeing as we're on the same interweb...

I ate a fajita today.

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Originally posted by Willy:

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Originally posted by Stephen B:
What's 20 million out of 6 Billion?

Not enough?

Willy.

Not nearly enough.....