Author Topic: 4 or 5 dead in Toronto - Flu Virus (Read 850 times)

Curval · « **on:** March 18, 2003, 12:41:09 PM »

This flu bug is hopping borders really fast.

I just got a phone call from a friend in the city who confirmed it.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2003, 12:48:05 PM »

Bah, no worries, right Oedipus, Frogm4n?

Hortlund · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2003, 12:50:02 PM »

Instead of spreading rumors...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2859825.stm

ra · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2003, 01:01:21 PM »

Everyone knows the Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid soon, then the Sun will go supernova. This bug is back page news.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #4 on:** March 18, 2003, 01:08:10 PM »

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...

Curval · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2003, 01:12:45 PM »

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?

Badger · « **Reply #6 on:** March 18, 2003, 01:14:13 PM »

FYI...

Two die so far....

Unknown if Toronto cases are linked to the cases in Asia[/url]

Regards,
Badger

air_guard · « **Reply #7 on:** March 18, 2003, 01:21:31 PM »

today it hit sweden aswell not good

I sure hope its not a flue

Wlfgng · « **Reply #8 on:** March 18, 2003, 01:30:53 PM »

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

CyranoAH · « **Reply #9 on:** March 18, 2003, 01:31:00 PM »

12 Monkeys. It has begun...

Frogm4n · « **Reply #10 on:** March 18, 2003, 01:49:47 PM »

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

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #11 on:** March 18, 2003, 02:06:30 PM »

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

Curval · « **Reply #12 on:** March 18, 2003, 02:20:21 PM »

Okie dockey...let me be the first to suggest it...

Biological weapon released?

Ripsnort · « **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2003, 02:26:35 PM »

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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.

Eagler · « **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2003, 02:27:51 PM »

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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...