swine flu

Post by **TankAzz** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:00 am

seriously, nobody has posted about this yet? or did i just miss it...

apparently, there was a confirmed case in an osu medical employee today. i can't wait to go to clinicals tomorrow

Post by **Wes** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:01 am

http://www.redriverclimbing.com/viewtopic.php?t=11527

Post by **TankAzz** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:04 am

oops... i am so bad about scrolling through all the topics when i have not been on in awhile...

Post by **Wes** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:12 am

No worries - there wasn't a whole lot of good info there. Not that there is a lot of great info out there to begin with, but cnn, fox, msnbc, etc are not great sources.

http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/

and

http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/

have been more interesting reading

Post by **Saxman** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:32 am

Don't worry, 30,000 to 40,000 people die from the flu every year and no freaks out about that.

Post by **Wes** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:38 am

The problem isn't that a lot of people might die - this strain may be even less deadly then the usual. It is that it can spread very quickly. Imagine if 10% of Lexington/Cinci/c-bus/etc got the flu at basically the same time - the infrastructure could never keep up. Not just medical, but every thing else. From one of the blogs, I got the feeling that they don't really expect it to kill a whole lot of people (though that is still a possibility), but that it could turn into a huge pain in the ass, and that is why they are trying to get somewhat ahead of it.

I wish I would have had the IQ/work ethic to stay in school and be a biology professor sometimes - it is very cool stuff!

Post by **toad857** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:34 am

i bet my body could ward it off

Post by **krampus** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:16 pm

I might buy stock in those cool masks that seem to be all the rage in mexico and texas right now

Post by KD » Fri May 01, 2009 1:02 am

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Post by **anticlmber** » Fri May 01, 2009 1:08 am

everybody knows you only get it from fucking pigs

and how often does THAT happen in eastern kentucky, really???

oh yeah, nevermind.