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I appreciate that pandemics are a real risk, but as usual, the media is making a mountain out of a molehill, so as we don't really know how exaggerated these stories are, I'm going to file them behind bird flu and carry on with my life until such a time as I start oinking and drop dead. :thumb:
The facts, as I know of them.
The herd immunity theory was originally coined in 1933 by a researcher called AW Hedrich, who had been studying measles patterns in the US between 1900-1931. The figures suggested to him that epidemics of the illness only occurred when less than 68% of children had developed a natural immunity to it. This was before any vaccination drug had been developed and based upon the principle that children build their own immunity after suffering with or being exposed to the disease. So the herd immunity theory was, in fact, about natural disease processes and nothing to do with vaccination. His theory published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, May 1933 concluded that if 53% of the population were allowed to build their own natural defences, there would be no raging epidemic.
The herd immunity phrase was adopted by corporations with pharmaceutical connections and increased the figure from 53% to 55% with no scientific justification as to why.Over the years the figure has crept up to 95%.Essentially, Hedrich’s study appears to have been manipulated to promote vaccination programmes.
Of course that makes commercial sense.
How's about this?
This quite possibly the most dumb thing I have read, the guy is a person hater me thinks. http://www.prisonplanet.com/swine-flu-attack-likely-a-beta-test.html
It's a funny read though.
:yes:
Oh god, I was watching the news before and they were talking about the reaction in Israel. They said the only thing they'd decided was that they would call it swine flu, despite opposition from the more orthadox members of government who wanted to call it Mexico flu because pigs are unclean. :rolleyes: You can always count of them to get to the real issues.
things spread fast in uni...
I've been making oink noises all day at my coughing colleague.
It's all hogwash if you ask me.
Oh dear.
Lol, I stepped over the PC line today when I prodded my friend as a hispanic looking fellow was coughing hehe.
Although why is it called swine flu instead of mexico flu when the spanish flu was called the spanish flu... just mindless pondering there.
The Hedrich research was based on natural immunity, and not artificially induced toxins.
According to wikipedia again (I follow the stats because it's the only online tracker I could find)
Totals
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Deaths (Suspected): 9 (168)
Infections (Suspected): 265 (3,964+)
I don't know how likely a suspected person is to actually have it though. I guess we will have to wait and see. Apparently through some hearsay Mexico has had a bit of a media blackout and they've known about this for over a month and have been trying to hush it up, all medical employees in mexico again apparently are banned from talking to the press, and the government gives press conferences that basically consist of a speech and a smile for the cameras.
So far it seems the majority of people who get it whether they have treatment or not recover absolutely fine just like it was a normal flu.
What I've heard again through the grapevine so nothing official from medical peeps is just quiet caution - they think it *could potentially* get serious but isn't there yet. But no need to take unnecessary risks like holding an international conference in Mexico City right now. They don't seem to be laughing it off as scaremongering either though.
I've noticed that too, and I'm a really sneezy person. Thumbs up for my new found personal space :thumb:
*so doing this*
Yes, you are! In 2066!
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/30/1915246.aspx
300,000 pigs * $45 a pig = $13.5M
down the drain hahaha. Thing is the flu isn't spread from pig to human, it's spread from human to human! The reason it's called swine flu is because the flu virus has mutated, taking some human flu dna h1n1 and some swine flu dna or something along those lines anyway. In theory making it a 'superflu' but then they realised that in all probability it's not going to be that dangerous, it will just be like normal flu that you catch and get better. At least that's the hope at the minute.
Reminds me of this:
(from the game Pandemic 2 where madagascar only has a port and as soon as you have a visible infection anywhere they just close the port and then you can't win the game lol)
I did not find the story as amusing as you.
It looks like the "herd" of Tamiflu will not need to be destroyed like those pigs. Although other governments are in similar positions the farmer in this case is the UK government,who has been looking after it for close on three years.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-rumsfeld-makes-5m-killing-on-bird-flu-drug-469599.html
According to the manufacturers,Roche,the shelf life of tamiflu is 3 years. Just in the nick of time for that 14.6 million flock ?