Seattlest: Your Swine Flu Primer

TroyJMorris

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:58:39 -0800

I keep hearing 1976, when we vaccinated out of insane fear and made people paralyzed. I'm not afraid because the U.S. is a lot different than it was in the- aw fuck.

BigGreenFrank

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:11:56 -0800

"It’s this factor that is causing the most fear among health officials because it is eerily reminiscent of the 1918 flu." I can't believe the science of medicine hasn't changed since 1918!!! Oh, it has? We've learned things and the world has advanced since then? We gotten better at producing vaccines and limiting disease vectors? oh...

TroyJMorris

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:09:48 -0800

But... I thought it was never lupis.

garyv

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:49:30 -0800

I thought this was pretty funny.

MvB

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:37:57 -0800

Yes, there are confirmed cases of death--26 is the latest I've heard from Mexico, though were are 149 deaths from pneumonia that were suspected to be flu-related. (And some of the confirmed deaths were people in the hospital for other reasons.) So far, though, as the next paragraph mentions, the U.S. cases have been relatively mild. Canada, by the way, is not that worried about it.

Jeremy

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:57:29 -0800

Most pandemic flus kill normally healthy, young people due to the cytokine storm--effectively you're killed by your own body's response.

EvilCornbread

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:15:38 -0800

Do we have confirmed cases of deaths? The cases in Mexico are still unconfirmed, and many might not be related. Posting stuff like "But this outbreak is killing the health people, 20 to 40 year olds." is unnecessarily inflammatory when it very well might not be true.

SeaSlug

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:47:23 -0800

The pigs are finally getting their revenge, perhaps? (And, no, I'm not a vegetarian.)