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This Mexican flu thing

posted by [personal profile] panik at 11:29am on 25/04/2009 under ,
seems a tad worrying.
Mood:: 'thoughtful' thoughtful
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posted by [identity profile] mab-browne.livejournal.com at 10:52am on 25/04/2009
We've had these scares up and down for several years now, but it's true that statistically speaking we're overdue for a serious flu strain. This does seem to be person to person transmission, and if that's the case then I guess the balloon has just gone up. Time will tell.
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 11:00am on 25/04/2009
I'm not worrying, I'm over 21 (smirk)I've had my go. These scares come and go but this one seems to be getting a low key treatment by the media which is cause for concern in itself and the demographic it's hitting and the rapid spread seems - dunno, especially worrying. New Scientist
have an interesting article too.

Shrug. We're well overdue. This planet is fantastically over-populated. ::shrug:: What will be I guess.
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posted by [identity profile] avarill.livejournal.com at 02:47pm on 25/04/2009
You'd be even more worried if you lived in Southern California LOL.
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 03:55pm on 25/04/2009
Well, not really - people will be getting on planes, crossing into other South American countries - if this truly has the makings of a pandemic, I suspect the damage has already been done.

::shrug:: I'm not worrying, I've had a good life. *g*
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posted by [identity profile] mab-browne.livejournal.com at 08:09pm on 25/04/2009
If it's the real thing, our turn will come soon enough. *g*
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posted by [identity profile] laurie-ky.livejournal.com at 01:17pm on 25/04/2009
Wow, seems like a nasty strain, indeed.

Wonder how long before it heads my way.

Laurie
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 03:56pm on 25/04/2009
I'm not going to worry about it till I know I have to - there've been so many scares - though this does seem like a peculiarly unpleasant and worrying virus.
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posted by [identity profile] karieflybabe.livejournal.com at 02:34pm on 25/04/2009
And still they will not think of closing the borders between the US and Mexico.
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 03:59pm on 25/04/2009
I don't think it would make the slightest difference in this case. Mexicans will have been travelling into other South and Central American countries, quite legitimately flying here, there and everywhere. Then there are export/import flights, trucks ships... If it really has the potential to be one, then I suspect the damage has already been done.

I'm not worrying till I know I have to and anyway, I've had a good life. *G*
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posted by [identity profile] hafren.livejournal.com at 03:47pm on 25/04/2009
I'm planning to stay away from pigs and not pet any Mexicans. Or maybe that's the other way around.
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 03:59pm on 25/04/2009
I commend your sensible attitude. I intend to stay away from Doritos for the duration. ::nods::
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posted by [identity profile] begonia125rose.livejournal.com at 03:58pm on 25/04/2009
I heard on the news this morning that some people in Texas have been infected but they didn't say where in Texas. My elderly father and wife #3 live in San Antonio and my brother-in-law is currently in Galveston still working on the hurricane restoration. He's a healthy person but the old folks give me cause to be concerned.
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 04:02pm on 25/04/2009
The news pieces I've read say no one has died yet in the US though there have been several cases. I'm not seriously worried or anything! I'm interested in a more academic way, at the way the media are dealing with it - but it does sound like the scientists and PTB are seriously worried - certainly one to watch.

I hope you and your family stay healthy.
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posted by [identity profile] therentgirls.livejournal.com at 04:48pm on 25/04/2009
It's always a bit frightening.

When I was a kid (way back in the 1960s) the Hong Kong flu was making the rounds. We were living in LA at the time and I was a pretty sick kid for a while. I think, despite the fact that we travel more now, that the CDC, etc, monitor these things a lot more closely than was once true.
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posted by [identity profile] laurie-ky.livejournal.com at 05:44pm on 25/04/2009
Oh, man, the Hong Kong Flu. I remember it vividly. I was eight years old and it was right before Christmas, when it hit my family. My dad was working out of town that fall and only came home on the weekends. Mom, me, and probably some of my siblings (I was the oldest and when I was eight, I had five brothers and sisters) were baking Christmas cookies. And between the time we mixed up the dough and were finished baking, (I was the last kid left standing, so I ended up baking the rest of the cookies myself), every one of us were sick as dogs. Mom, too. Dad came home and the house was like an infirmary, we were so sick. Mom kept dragging herself from kid to kid and set buckets by our beds.

Yeah. Fun times.

Laurie
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