^ I don't think that's quite right, Frank. Janet Parker was the last person to die of smallpox in the UK in 1978, and she did catch it from a sample in a lab - but she was the only person to die. ...
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^ I don't think that's quite right, Frank. Janet Parker was the last person to die of smallpox in the UK in 1978, and she did catch it from a sample in a lab - but she was the only person to die. ...
I have also read all the posts on this thread, and I cannot see any that make a joke of swine flu. You are entitled of course to interpret posts differently.
There are a number of posters (me...
It seems a tragic story to me - I don't see why you would imagine she found it "hilarious"? Having given birth, and already having a respiratory tract infection, she was a high-risk,...
Pandemic is used when the disease is present in two or more countries.
Both terms describe different aspects of the spread of a disease - the words have nothing to do with the severity of the disease, nor with its outcomes or mortality rate.
A disease can be...
Oh don't you start! :)
^ Love it! In the interests of even greater viral safety (not to mention increased social distance) could we start greeting others by smashing them on the head with a tennis racket or something...
I apologise for having been facetious earlier - it seems from your post that you are genuinely quite frightened by this. I acknowledge that you have the right to feel whatever you feel, and I am not...
OH MY GOD!!!! I just HOPE now that they'll ban all flights to America, burn all the Oreos... and that John Barrowman, he's got a bit of an accent... should he be culled??? :) :D ;)
But if you've read Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine... you'll be wondering whether it's a capitalist plot!
Alarmist propaganda. It's seven in England, three in Scotland - all recently returned from Mexico, all treated with Tamiflu and antivirals, and the first two of whom are already home from hospital...
Blimey, the media are really outdoing themselves over there to create panic, aren't they?! :) What does your government health department say about it? Ours says "This means there are small...
I have to say I find this really unlikely - it sounds like media frenzy to me. Influenza is spread through droplet infection - like colds - if you were asymptomatic, I think your likelihood of being...
Bloody hell! Is there more information yet, Seamus, as to what the toxin in the feed has been doing to the pigs - have they been in pain before being killed?