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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Curval on March 18, 2003, 12:41:09 PM
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This flu bug is hopping borders really fast.
I just got a phone call from a friend in the city who confirmed it.
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Bah, no worries, right Oedipus, Frogm4n? ;)
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Instead of spreading rumors...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2859825.stm
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Everyone knows the Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid soon, then the Sun will go supernova. This bug is back page news.
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I'm still in the camp of "The world will end by disease"(though I don't think this disease it "the one"). Much higher probability if you run the numbers...
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I was hoping that someone else in Toronto would confirm it Hortlund...spreading rumours is your job ;)
"Experts believe it is increasingly likely that the bug responsible for a deadly form of pneumonia which has spread around the world is a new microbe not previously known to medicine."
...and if this doesn't scare the crap out of people something is wrong. The virus came out of Asia..perhaps the Phillipines or Indonesia?
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FYI...
Two die so far....
Unknown if Toronto cases are linked to the cases in Asia (http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/health/pneumonia_report.htm)[/url]
Regards,
Badger
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today it hit sweden aswell not good :confused:
I sure hope its not a flue
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scares me a whole lot more than Osama or Iraq or even NK....
not to mention the fact that a lot of people don't take this kind of thing seriously until it's too late.
history repeats
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12 Monkeys. It has begun...
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heh maybe i should go to the hospital and get this checked out then, ive been more sick the past few days then i have ever been. but its most likely just a minor flu, i was in hawaii for spring break not asia
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It doesn't matter if it's acknowledged as a health risk or not. They're doing their best to find out what it is- bacterial or viral.
Beyond that, there is no remedy... well, unless you wanna start injecting bleach in your veins.
Seriously though, either your immune system is up to snuff and you can fight this-- or you can't.
Take a lot of vitamin C & Zinc, drink a lot of liquids, eat chicken soup, wait 2 weeks.
If you are REALLY worried, don't take cold/flu medicine or drink alchohol as they both will slow your body down and make it more difficult to fight the infection. Just drink chamomile tea (hey, it works) for your aches and sore throat.
Now if a new form of the bubonic plague comes around, or HIV/AIDs becomes airborne, THEN we got problems.
-SW
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Okie dockey...let me be the first to suggest it...
Biological weapon released?
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Originally posted by Oedipus
Some people just like the rush of being freaked out imo.
No, some just like being prepared...but you lack common sense, so I don't expect you to know that.
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Originally posted by Frogm4n
heh maybe i should go to the hospital and get this checked out then, ive been more sick the past few days then i have ever been. but its most likely just a minor flu, i was in hawaii for spring break not asia
who was on the plane with you? who was on the plane before you? who was sitting, coughing & sneezing next to you at the bar, beach, store, McD's?
bio terror would be done in small steps to track its path/life. once the best delivery system/infection route is figured out, then imo the real terror would be unleashed...
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Originally posted by Curval
Okie dockey...let me be the first to suggest it...
Biological weapon released?
Nah, it started somewhere in China...but China is most likely where the "end of the world virus" will begin if that makes you feel better (According to one of the worlds leading Immunologists here at the UW)
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Nah, it started somewhere in China...but China is most likely where the "end of the world virus" will begin if that makes you feel better (According to one of the worlds leading Immunologists here at the UW)
You know a better way for the Chinese governement to keep the population down? ;)
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the 'end of the world virus' would be ok with me.. assuming I was spared of course...
just think, all that open territory (again)
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
the 'end of the world virus' would be ok with me.. assuming I was spared of course...
just think, all that open territory (again)
Yeah, sure...you were thinking "All those unattended Sheep"...
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You guys do realise influenza pandemics are nothing new?
Something like 20 million were killed world wide shortly after WW1.
So let's drop the biological attack thing.
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lol Rip !
don't get me searching for the halloween pic again :)
Dowding
You guys do realise influenza pandemics are nothing new?
aparently this is NOT influenza but a new 'bug'
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At some point influenza was 'new'. So why does this bug have to a biological attack?
Considering it's only killed 5 people across the whole of asia (high population density), I'd say it was pretty crap as a weapon.
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12 Monkeys. It has begun...
Captain Trips
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Captain Trips seems more on-target... at least symptomatically
no Dowding, I never said anything about 'manufactured' viruses.. just that this new 'bug' is pretty scarey
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I'm not sure if it's a new thing that's all. Everyone's a little more jumpy at the moment and maybe it's getting more press than usual?
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either your genetics can handle it or not, we are the children of the survivors of many plauges. no biggy
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its NOT the flue it IS pneumonia
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Originally posted by CyranoAH
12 Monkeys. It has begun...
Someone letting animals out of the Zoo?
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Everyone's a little more jumpy at the moment and maybe it's getting more press than usual?
BingBingBing! We have a winner!
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Someone letting animals out of the Zoo?
I tried but they wouldn't let me... so I'll just say our president is at large... it's a start... :D
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Quote from the WHO Doctor....
"This has been smouldering around the Far East for some time - it's not as if it has just exploded, I wouldn't get too worried."