Anyone got swine flu?

[Vin]

Well?
The media says we'll all be dead by lunchtime

[JonB]

I'm soooo tempted to go to Tesco and buy 300 odd cans of baked beans.

Interestingly the strain of Flu H1N1 is the same as the famed "spanish flu" of 1918.
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[Vin]

Jon B:
Is that the one that killed more people that WW1?

[JonB]

Yes. Indeed it is.

I'm only /slightly/ concerned about the threat, if I have to stay indoors and kill my days off playing GTA IV I don't particularly mind.

Do find it rather odd that the people dying are young healthy people though.
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[Vin]

So the fact that I am old, fat and unhealthy means I am ok.....Hurrah

[Skudd]

[Charlie]

It isn't the British flu season so there is a less of a chance we will get it badly.

Mum (who is a nurse) found it quite worrying because apparently the virus is targeting the people who are consider to be least at risk to it. Also said that if an outbreak does occur it will be in the general flu vaccine next year.
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[Itchy]

There was something about this I read about a few months ago.

In that such flu is more lethal to younger people due to the fact that their immune systems are more powerful which is what kills them , in that some sort of histamine reaction occurs pumping a defence chemical into the blood large amounts of it which as a side effect causes the lungs to fill up with fluid.

If you are older the reaction is slower and less effective such that you can choke the fluid back out of your lungs with little problem , while the younger people have to have tubes stuffed into their lungs for it to be drained out.

Stick a bloke on a ventilator/lung draining machine and he is ok, the big problem is the lack of ventilators , in that the NHS has barely any excess capacity now.
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[Phoenix]

I'll start worrying when swathes of people in this country who are fit and healthy start dying, doubt it's going to turn into anything even remotely approaching that though. Still, I do believe that ultimately when the world becomes grossly overpopulated or certain areas do then nature will do it's job and most likely a virus will curb the population, don't think we're quite there yet though.

[chris-red]

I think animal farm got 21st century,

"4 legs good 2 legs bad"
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[Itchy]

[yuri2085]

If you want to be a doomsayer you should complain about how CLEAN Britain is, and hence we will all die.
Living in (moderatley) unhygenic conditions strengthens your immune system

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[Visitor Q]

[cheesyleps]

Virii are extremely elegant, especially the cold in using a natural bodily reaction to spread (the cough or sneeze).

My comment refers to the idea that if your genetic traits aren't suited to your environment, then you die and another with the correct traits survives. That is natural selection condensed into it's simplest form.

Survival of the fittest, although sometimes misleading and not actually coined by Darwin himself, is still a great concept.
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[Visitor Q]

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[GhostRider]

[Visitor Q]

If you're interested by that, have a look for stuff regarding hookworm infections 'curing' asthma.

It's quite widely known, although they're not certain why yet (well, back when I first heard about it, it may have changed now).

'Robert Desovitz - Tales of Jewish grandmothers and tapeworms' covers it at one point and is a great book if you like tropical diseases Very dry humour too
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