Swine Fever

[MITREMAN]

JOKE

I tried to ring the NHS helpline about pig flu,

but all i got was crackling

MITREMAN

[Cathy]

AH WELL THE GOV ARE MAKING A RIGHT " PIGS EAR OF THIS ONE"

[prospero]

Well last year we had bird flu. Before that saars virus and before that anthrax.

I wonder what next years designer disease will be?


Green Parrot flu
Green Parrot flu
Green Parrot flu
Green Parrot flu
Green Parrot flu......

[Dermot]

This is a rapidly changing situation…

Latest from the WHO (World Health Organisation)

As of 18:00 GMT, 29 April 2009
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_29/en/index.html

Regular updates. http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html

I have a soft science background around contamination control, the warnings around Swine Flu warnings I would not take lightly, some of the others warnings about contamination threats over the years I would have taken indifferently……… Swine Flu is a lot more serious.

All that said I hope it fizzles out…..very soon, the longer it goes on the greater the possibility of contamination spreading.

[philipsheldon]

That's the " truffle " with making a joke, there's always someone willing to hog the lime light ! Never doing anything rash. Talking of a rash...where's my oinkment ?

[prospero]

I suppose it is easy for us to scoff when these situations occur and say - "All that fuss and nothing came of it..... ". It's because of all the fuss that these dangerous diseases are kept under control. If it were not for the efforts of the WHO and others who knows what might happen.

Like the Millenium Bug.

[Dermot]

It the rate this contamination is spreading that is cause grave concern.

Then again it hasn’t reached Ireland YET….and as Michael O’Leary (Ryanair) said yesterday it is a contamination of countries with “slums” ……..I don’t agree with his analysis….I’m not sure if he was only joking….. I hope he was….

[gesso]

just to put some perspective on the situation approx 35,000 people die each year in the US from the regular flu virus.
So far one infant has died in the States. Haven't been given any info on the type of individuals that have died in Mexico....another case of the mainstream news not really doing their job. One part of me thinks its the government trying to look as if they are worth what they cost us by "managing" the pandemic after the mess they've caused financially.

Sorry to sound grumpy but i've had a PIGof a day!

[prospero]

just to put some perspective on the situation approx 35,000 people die each year in the US from the regular flu virus.
So far one infant has died in the States. Haven't been given any info on the type of individuals that have died in Mexico....another case of the mainstream news not really doing their job. One part of me thinks its the government trying to look as if they are worth what they cost us by "managing" the pandemic after the mess they've caused financially.

Sorry to sound grumpy but i've had a PIGof a day!

Bad News Today , Good News To-morrow. And in the meantime divert attention from last weeks cock-up.

Oldest trick in the book.


Sorry to be a boar.

[Bill Henry]

And this is how it all started …

kidkissingpig.jpg

[Dermot]

The child that died in the US was from Mexico

[Dermot]

Following my earlier post, things are changing …….

RTE News Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:59

“The first probable case of swine flu has been identified in Ireland”

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0430/swineflu.html

[gesso]

And this is how it all started …

kidkissingpig.jpg

We had a similar photo op years ago here when John Gummer MP made his young daughter eat a berger for the press whilst BSE was around

Glad to see swine fever isnt the only thing pandemic. Now do you think we should still vote for these bafoons?

[danchip1]

What i find strange is that the world is rife with

heart disease
AIDS
cancer
alcoholism, drug addiction, smoking diseases
and indeed
a philosophy of living that ensures destruction of the world that sustains us

yet we get all this about swine flu

how many people died today of the above list?

I guess we're all used to it...

oh dear, gettin cynical, i'll go for the media / government smoke screen theory, nice to have a break from the recession!

[Dermot]

heart disease…….cannot be transmitted person to person

AIDS….can only be transmitted person to person by direct contact in most cases

cancer….cannot be transmitted person to person as far as medical science is aware

alcoholism, drug addiction, smoking diseases…..cannot be transmitted person to person

and indeed a philosophy of living that ensures destruction of the world that sustains us……not sure what you mean by this….

[Roboframer]

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[Moglet]

[Dermot]

Where is that plant located!!!!!

[Moglet]

It's Battersea Power Station.

[Dermot]

It's Battersea Power Station.

Does it exist as an operating plant anymore!!!!