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H1N1 (Swine Flu) is back are you prepared?

  • 09-01-2014 02:06PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭


    Not to scare monger but the deadly highly contagious H1N1 bird-flu virus is back.
    This global pandemic has all ready caused the death of one lady in Canada.

    http://o.canada.com/uncategorized/health-canada-urges-doctors-to-inoculate-patients-against-h1n1-flu-virus/

    "“Uncontrollable, catastrophic risks”

    I didn't sleep all night worrying about it as I feel a bit fluey myself so pray to God I don't get it.

    Will the Government provide us with jabs again this time?

    Could this have mutated into some super bird flu virus?

    How many millions will die?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,923 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Don't worry, normal flu can kill you too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭.Henry Sellers.


    I just had a bowl of Chicken noodles!! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Time to buy more shares in big pharma


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭davo2001


    Lol, they can vaccinate all they want against H1N1, it won't do any good since the guy died from the H5N1 strain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    I'm not a bird, neither the winged nor the vajayjay bearing kind, so should be okay


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭flynnlives


    this isnt a pandemic!

    the pig one was, h1n5 was it called?

    however this hasnt managed to become highly contagious. If it did it would have spread as quick as the pig one did.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Had n1h1 in summer 2009. Was ****ing harsh.


  • Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I knew I shouldn't have ****ed that bird from Coppers the other night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    This global pandemic has all ready caused the death of one lady in Canada.
    Worth opening the thread just for that line.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    A little help from the anti-vaccination crowd, no doubt.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭Jon_459


    Read the article :

    "But the hard part will be persuading people to be inoculated. Not even past threats of a full-blown pandemic have been enough to convince the majority of Canadians to get a flu shot.
    “Uncontrollable, catastrophic risks” scare people the most, says Dr. Kumanan Wilson, a senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
    “When you create the image of flu in your head, you don’t think of it as a catastrophic illness.”

    Kumann is not applying "Uncontrollable, catastrophic risks" to the ourbreak in Canada


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    I've got my iodine tablet knocking about in my "stuff drawer" somewhere, so I'm sorted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭preston johnny


    It'll never take off


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    My Sons birth coincided with the swine flu outbreak in the Rotunda... the night he was born I was put into a big empty ward and the nurse came down to check on us wearing a disease mask.

    That'll fairly put the shíts up ya.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭dpofloinn


    Im so prepared im getting my own extreme prepers show


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭Wossack


    another year, another overblown epidemic scare


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭SweepTheLeg


    I remember the big fuss over that a few years ago. Never seemed to bother me, and still doesn't.

    Typical scaremongering from the media again, I wonder which Pharmaceutical company will profit big this time around.


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I'm off to Madagascar so

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    A little help from the anti-vaccination crowd, no doubt.

    Well, I'm sure the 'correlation does not equal causation' crowd will gladly set them right.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    Pure scaremongering from weather.com:
    http://www.weather.com/health/cold-flu-outlook/deadly-h1n1-spreading-across-us-20140106
    The calendar says 2014, but health officials and flu victims might feel like it’s 2009 all over again. The H1N1 flu strain — which was responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic — has dominated this season’s flu scene, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    “[Usually] the most common problem from the flu isn’t the virus itself, but the bacteria and pneumonia that the virus sets you up for,” Bruce Hirsch, M.D., an infectious disease specialist at North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital in New York, told weather.com. “(But) this season — unlike few others — we’re seeing this H1N1 flu cause viral pneumonia in and of itself and causing an occasionally fatal flu in young adults who would not be otherwise vulnerable."

    “H1N1 seems to be a character — a bad actor — and causing more problems [than other flu strains],” said Dr. Hirsch. “So far the outbreak of this flu season seem to me, as an infectious disease practitioner, to be more dramatic and more severe. It seems to be a little bit of an explosive onset, and what I’ve seen in my patients is a few cases trickling in and then boom! It’s much more common.”

    Late last month, health officials in Texas confirmed that the H1N1 flu killed six people. Officials expressed some concern because this year’s flu vaccine is designed to help prevent H1N1 cases.

    Texas isn’t the only state dealing with H1N1 cases. Here are some of the states battling the swine flu:

    Michigan. Swine flu has killed three adults, and infected about a dozen more child and adults. These patients remain on life support, according to The Detroit Free Press.
    California. Last week, Santa Clara Health Department officials reported the state’s first flu death of the season. The victim tested positive for the H1N1 strain, and other counties have also reported positive tests for the virus. In addition to seven cases in Santa Clara County, Marin County and Contra Costa County have reported several cases of swine flu, according to NBC Bay Area.
    Oregon. Health officials confirmed two deaths from H1N1 flu, and another 81 hospitalizations, according to King 5 News.
    Utah. Utah officials warn that swine flu is on the rise, and could be responsible for the first two flu deaths reported last week, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
    North Carolina. The flu has killed 13 people in North Carolina, according to USA Today.
    The CDC reports that the flu is now widespread in more than half of the country, with many states reporting severe outbreaks. As of the last weekly flu advisory report, widespread activity has been reported in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington state and Wyoming.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    no point in getting into a flap about it

    just another scaremonger-er crying fowl


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Scouser wrote: »
    no point in getting into a flap about it

    just another scaremonger-er crying fowl

    True enough, the people responding are simply egging him on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    True enough, the people responding are simply egging him on.

    well lets hope the medical world and governments can hatch a plan to over come such a disaster

    otherwise we're just giving the nutters free range to stage a worrisome mass media coup


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭MetLuver


    Scouser wrote: »
    well lets hope the medical world and governments can hatch a plan to over come such a disaster

    otherwise we're just giving the nutters free range to stage a worrisome mass media coup

    Now just hold on an organic corn fed minute, is this cock spreading lies and deliberately sending everyone into a flutter? He is making an announcment to the world tonight on the nine o'clock news and we're all waiting with basted breath.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Healthcare has certainly improved immeasurably since WW1, and I'm sure being stuck in a smelly trench didn't help matters, but sooner or later something like the Spanish flu is going to roll around again and kill a whole load of people.

    Probably including asthmatic me. :(

    In the mean time get your bloody seasonal flu jabs. It reduces the number of things that can kill you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    MetLuver wrote: »
    Now just hold on an organic corn fed minute, is this cock spreading lies and deliberately sending everyone into a flutter? He is making an announcment to the world tonight on the nine o'clock news and we're all waiting with basted breath.

    listen, these guys are just looking to give someone a roasting

    what should we do? flock together?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭MetLuver


    Scouser wrote: »
    listen, these guys are just looking to give someone a roasting

    what should we do? flock together?

    I read a bwawk on how to deal with people like this, we'll have to get cracking and come up with a good plan soon. If we leave it too long no one will give a cluck.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    MetLuver wrote: »
    I read a bwawk on how to deal with people like this, we'll have to get cracking and come up with a good plan soon. If we leave it too long no one will give a cluck.

    You keep your beak out.


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    H1N1 is "swine" Flu - Not bird flu.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Bird flu has been created by the Irish government and the Illuminati in order to kidnap the children or Ireland and put them into state controlled slavery camps. Its all written in statute.*








    * I may have been reading the Freeman thread earlier .


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