News WHO Declares First 21st Century Pandemic

[willy88]

http://www.reuters.com/article/BIOTRX/idUSLB76585720090611

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!

 

[astrosammy]

So now we should all wear our spacesuits when going outside :lol:.

People aged 30-50, pregnant women or people suffering from chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes or obesity are deemed at highest risk,[...]

So it's no huge problem for me.

EDIT: But my chronic condition with Orbiter may be a problem :lol:.

 

[ar81]

Who is in first base, What is in second base and I don't know is in third base...

 

[Ghostrider]

Get ready for the Zombie Apocalypse.

 

[Andy44]

I have come here to chew bubblegum...etc.

 

[Moonwalker]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB5-Y08qbjo"]YouTube - Congressman Paul on the Recent Swine Flu Scare[/ame]

 

[Pilot7893]

2 Weeks after first infection...

 

[Ark]

Brace for zombies!

 

[willy88]

EDIT: But my chronic condition with Orbiter may be a problem :lol:.

Maybe it will make you effectively immune to it. Just seal yourself inside your house and do a real-time mission to Mars. :rofl:

Be sure to pack lots of food.

 

[Pilot7893]

Brace for zombies!

Shotgun's all you need for that, brah. Baseball bat will do as well.

 

[Suzy]

And Victoria - where I live - has become the swine flu capital of the world! (Or of Australia, at least)

 

[Ghostrider]

Brace for zombies!

More reasons to play Left4Dead to the wee hours: training.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

I need to install an airlock on my house!!! :rofl:

 

[Moonwalker]

I need to install an airlock on my house!!! :rofl:

You don't need to. The symptoms of the new influenza are basically non-threatening to healthy people and also not different from the usual influenza. The whole thing is a political and scientific media hype to demonstrate capability where there is none.

But if you like, you can install the airlock to prevent getting a flu generally

I don't need one. I'm now (since thursday) 30 years old and I never suffered from flu. Regarding a Chinese wisdom I'm going to become seriously ill because I'm never ill here and there. My western family doctor jokes that I'm a non-profitable patient

 

[Urwumpe]

My western family doctor jokes that I'm a non-profitable patient

My doctor did first see me after many years, when I brought my ill brother to him. We are special people and we need special illnesses :lol:

 

[Kyle]

Finally I get to make use of the Launch-Entry Suit in my room.
And they all said I was crazy.

 

[n72.75]

Well this thread aged like milk.

I had this back in '09. Still have a chronic cough that flares up about 20% of the time because of it.

 

[Sbb1413]

Yeah, it is sort of a rule of thumb that once emerged, a disease will never go away from the human race until the extinction of the race itself! You cannot expect swine flu, COVID-19 and HIV to be eliminated from the human race. Smallpox is a glitchy exception of this rule.

 

[Urwumpe]

History is FULL of diseases, that we will never see again. Most of them likely because the science wasn't around yet to classify them precisely and know what causes them.

But also because humanity got immune to them, changed its behaviour or evolved to to be harder to infect.

 

[Sbb1413]

But still, diseases that infected our ancestors will infect us. Bubonic plague GREATLY reduced the European population in the 14th century, and we have used antibiotics to fight against such diseases in the 20th century. But still, there are cases of bubonic plague in the 21st century. Again, once emerged, a disease will never go away from the human race until the extinction of the race itself! The only way to see the world without sickness is to see the world without the human race. This is one of the reasons people are travelling to the remote places like Ladakh, Tibet, Sahara etc.